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...come from burying the pipeline in permafrost; no one really knows how the soil would behave. Oil would enter the pipe at a geothermal temperature of more than 100°; pumping and friction would boost that to 180°. As a result, critics charge, the hot oil might create a "thaw bulb" in the permafrost as deep as 50 ft. If the pipe broke, either by sagging into the mush or by being jolted by an earthquake, the aftermath would make the Santa Barbara spill look like a picnic. Critics also fear breaks at the pipe's lowest points: riverbeds. They paint...
...Americans may have to live without their air conditioners, and possibly by the light of a single bulb," Yablonski said, "but miners feel that only this kind of action will wake up people to the facts of poor mining conditions. 1970 is the year of the coal miner," he added...
...material prosperity. Actually, Soviet shoppers still encounter frustration searching for products that U.S. citizens find in abundance. Moscow residents these days find few eggs and little flour in the stores. They may have to try two or three shops to locate as necessary an item as a light bulb. Russia's economic leaders admit that they have fallen far short of reaching not only Khrushchev's Utopian targets for 1970, but even the more modest goals they set for themselves...
...named Charlie Brown, it becomes a good deed in a naughty world, bright, nonviolent and equipped with an animated moral, the way Snoopy is equipped with a tail. Charlie loses the National Spelling Bee and slinks back to town, looking for all the world like an extinguished light bulb. And behold!-life goes on. In spite of failure and humiliation, observes the prescient Linus, "the world didn't come to an end." It is a message that should not be missed by sensitive children. Neither should the movie...
...would cause ultraviolet light to shift toward the red end of the spectrum into visible frequencies. So the NASA men assumed the visible light from distant galaxies is intrinsically brighter than previously believed; therefore those galaxies must be farther away. "We thought we were looking at a dim light bulb close to us," a NASA scientist explained. "But now that we know that the bulb is brighter, we figure it must be more distant...