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...they say, a small nuclear warhead could be detonated on or near it. Says Shoemaker: "We have the technology to do that right now." But if the explosion simply broke the meteorite into large chunks, the danger would only be multiplied. "The more prudent solution," says Harris, "is to burrow a substantial charge into the object and blow it to smithereens...
Second Period--4, B, Lisa Bishop (Sarah Burrow) 4:25; 5, B, Phoebe Williamson (Bonnie Welch). Penalties--Burrow, B (slashing) 1:44; Brita Lind, H (hooking) 7:21; Christine Burns, H, (cross checking...
Third Period--6, B, Bishop (Corcoran, Burrow) 1:44; 2, H, Sasner (Neilson, Genie Simmons) 4:20; 7, B, Margaret Faule (Les, Holcombe) 12:17; 8, B, Bishop (Liz McLarney) 15:15. Penalties--Debbie Allen, B (cross checking) 3:31; Burrow, B, (holding...
...squashed and dusted with poison by humans. But most survive, and the female is able to lay upwards of 500 eggs in slits that she makes in twigs. The lives of the adults are soon over, and they die. But in eight weeks the cicada nymphs hatch and burrow down into the ground to reach the tree roots, on which they will feed and grow slowly for the next 13 years. The periodic cicadas do not kill trees in their feeding, and at no point in their lives do they hurt garden vegetables or flowering plants, although their egg laying...
...overpowering urge to compute, as Levy describes it, has always seemed bizarre to outsiders. At M.I.T. and Stanford the true devotees would skip meals, drop classes and give up sleep and social lives to burrow deeper and deeper into their beloved electronic brains. Once they started on a project, they would regularly "wrap around," working day and night until, after 30 hours, they collapsed on the nearest cot or sofa. Programmers at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Lab eventually discovered that the space between the roof and false ceiling made a comfortable sleeping hutch, and some of them lived there...