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...Sailing directly downwind, an iceboat cannot exceed the wind's speed. On a reach, though, the wind produces a vacuum on the lee of the slightly slanting sail. This results in a strong forward force. As the sail pushes forward trying to eliminate the vacuum, an iceboat can attain fantastic speeds -up to five times the actual wind velocity. The ice sailor hauls in the sheet for more and more zip, aims his boat with a tiller that controls the front runner. Then, sometimes, he prays...
...fact, the army needs at least 35,000 more fulltime soldiers to meet Britain's obligations-a level it will probably never attain without reintroduction of politically unpalatable conscription. As the London Times despondently observed, "The operation of scraping the bottom of the barrel has run against a predictable difficulty-the bottom of the barrel seems to have disappeared...
...more of it Americans might have is suggested in the new Cambridge Report, a manifesto by 25 top U.S. math users and teachers who hammered it out at Harvard. To lift the national logic level and stamp out mathematical illiteracy, these experts argue that sixth-graders can and should attain a competence "well above that of the general population today." For high school graduates, they prescribe two years of calculus and a knowledge "comparable to three years of top-level college training today...
...took Goethe 60 years to finish. And I do not invoke Goethe lightly. For After the Fall is Miller's Faust and also his Odyssey. Spanning some four decades, the work is an epic that probes the struggles of an extraordinary and complex "contemporary man"--Quentin, a lawyer--to attain one moment of perfect contentment, to reach home after long and stormy wanderings, to arrive at the truth--or at least his truth ("Speak truth, not decency. I curse the whole high administration of fake innocence! I declare it; I am not innocent--nor good...
...SSTs is their unexpected size. All three planemakers proposed SSTs measuring about 210 ft. in length (v. 153 ft. for the longest Boeing 707 and 180 ft. for the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic). The big planes are designed to carry 150 to 210 passengers, depending on seating arrangements, and attain a speed of Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) v. a Mach 2.2 top speed for the Concorde. To withstand the heat generated by the higher speed, the U.S. supersonics will be built of titanium and stainless steel...