Word: atomize
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...amounted to a Faustian bargain between civilization and the natural world--which, as it happens, supports civilization. Hydroelectricity from Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State smelted enough aluminum during World War II to build tens of thousands of warplanes, with enough surplus power to make plutonium for the first atom bombs. But now, in the form of devastated salmon fisheries, Grand Coulee (along with countless other dams) is extracting an awful price for its creation...
DIED. THOMAS FEREBEE, 81, Enola Gay bombardier who dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima in World War II; in Windermere, Fla. The colonel retired from the Air Force in 1970, after acting as an observer in Vietnam...
What is new is difficult. It has not yet taken full shape; it is not yet trustworthy, but it is extremely powerful. Splitting the atom, discovering radiation, Keynesian economics, postructuralism, relativity and now computerization: all are the results of great social debate and change, and all have their share of ugliness. Major shifts in human thought are not negotiated without some who recognize power in the new--the democratic, the economic, the wired--and seek to exploit...
Nope. You'll owe immediate income tax on the cost of every share you take out. It would be great if you could take possession of just the gain and roll the cost into an IRA. But that's like splitting an atom--an unnatural divide with explosive consequences...
...represents the sun, while smaller spheres, from a few inches to a few feet across, portray the eight planets. (Not nine. Many astronomers, Tyson explains, now believe that Pluto is not a full-fledged planet.) A bit farther along, the sphere represents a molecule that dwarfs the footwide atom mounted to the railing...