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...national or international regulations apply to "this remote kind of killing." McElroy said, even though "geophysical warfare has been around on the back burner since...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Aerosol Pollution May Cause Rise in Cancer, Scientist Says | 2/28/1975 | See Source »

There was another barn-burner on the IAB hardcourt last night. It took a furious last-minute rally, but Harvard's varsity basketball squad pulled out a dramatic 64-62 victory over a winless Dartmouth quintet which was missing its best player, forward Adam Sutton...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Crimson Cagers Nip Dartmouth, 64-62; Needleman Sparks 2nd-Half Comeback | 12/20/1974 | See Source »

...spends most of her time shelling peas and chatting it up across every imaginable communications gap. The stranger at their door, though generally troubled, is rarely dangerous; his problems are readily soluble through immersion in the pot of tolerance, good will and homely wisdom always asimmering on the back burner of the old wood stove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints: Life on the Prairies | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

Shuttling Gas. Unlike typical internal combustion engines, the Stirling engine is powered by heat from an external source. In the Ford-Philips design (see diagram), hydrogen gas is heated by a burner, which can run on virtually any kind of fuel. The sealed-in hydrogen then expands, enters one cylinder and pushes a sliding piston. As the piston moves, it forces gas out of the other end of the cylinder; the emerging gas is cooled and then moves toward an adjacent cylinder where heat is applied once more and the process is repeated. As the gas shuttles between interconnected cylinders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Stirling Performance | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...would use fuel more economically. Lacking any need for valves or cams, it would also have fewer parts. Jack Collins, manager of Ford's alternative-engines program, concedes that the Stirling is still a long way from being ready for passenger car use; for one thing, an adequate burner has not yet been developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Stirling Performance | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

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