Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...docking ports (to receive visiting spacecraft, including a new class of fully automated, unmanned supply ship) and large, winglike solar panels (to convert sunlight into electricity). Salyut carried myriad scientific and observational gear, notably a multi-spectral camera, telescopes for scanning the heavens, kilns for processing materials in zero-g atmosphere, even a small garden for growing plants in orbit...
From the very start of the missions, the remarkable effects of zero-g became apparent to Soviet doctors. Life aboard Salyut proved far from salutary. In spite of prolonged training on the ground, many of the cosmonauts could not hold their food down in the early days of a flight. Some had trouble getting to sleep, and were often awakened by the spacecraft's clattering and creaking. Others complained of fatigue and vertigo. In a revealing new book, Red Star in Orbit (Random House; $12.95), James Oberg offers some trenchant quotes from the flight diary of Salyut Cosmonaut Valeri...
...children's books and three previous novels, sets Riddley Walker in the southeast corner of England, some 2,500 years into a badly damaged and degraded future. A nuclear holocaust, which occurred near the end of the 20th century, has forced civilization to start over again at ground zero. Progress has been slow. People huddle together in small enclaves, fighting off the elements, packs of killer dogs and occasionally, one another. A semblance of central government exists in the person of a "Pry Mincer" and "Wes Mincer," two itinerants who travel from village to village giving repeated performances...
...family earning the national average of $7,704 and with a nest egg of about $3,500 in the bank would have realized an annual return of about $80 after inflation and federal taxes were taken into account. By 1967 inflation and taxes had reduced the gain to zero. In the year 1970, that same average family would have lost $110; and in 1979 it would have lost $830. "Just like money in the bank" no longer meant certainty and stability. Now savings were like a sand castle, slowly being washed away by wave after wave of inflation...
Even if it's part time. This year, Se-jin roamed the country for medical school interviews. Meanwhile, he played teaching fellow in Biochem 10, the introductory Biochemistry course, while spending every spare moment in the lab. "I did absolutely zero work in other courses," he laughs. But he did enough to get accepted at Johns Hopkins Medical school where he will pursue both an MD and a Ph.D. His research will continue on viruses, this time animal tumor viruses, under the direction of Dr. Dan Nathans, 1976 Nobel Laureate. That's seven more years of school, including summers...