Word: carbonic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fitting bureaucratic style, the coronation of "Miss Bureaucrat 1969" last week was followed, a few moments later, by the crowning of "Miss Carbon Copy," her twin sister. Both presided over the presentation of awards for extraordinary bureaucratic finesse. Winners received a gold-painted, potbellied, disheveled bird, sculpted by Boren himself. Among the recipients were ex-Ambassador to Panama and former Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn and John Brayton Redecker, a State Department official and author of CASP: A Systematic Approach to Policy Planning and Analysis in Foreign Affairs. Absent was Vice President Spiro Agnew, tapped for "his contributions...
...Birds. Rolls-Royce's troubles are those of a cash-short player trying to keep up with the international competition. Its financial troubles have been compounded by technological problems encountered in developing the TriStar's engine. Rolls-Royce's pioneering use of "Hyfil"carbon fibers laminated with resinfor fan blades produced an engine that was lighter and more economical on fuel. But the Hyfil blades were vulnerable to damage by birds drawn into an engine during takeoff or flight. A 4-lb. bird makes an impact equivalent to two tons on a spinning turbine...
...presumably dormant samples of bacteria, algae and fungi and doused them with TTC, the chemical began turning pink in only 15 to 20 minutes the time it usually takes active cells to react. As a double check, he placed some of the samples in containers of radioactively labeled carbon dioxide. When exposed to light, the algal cells immediately began taking up carbon dioxide, proof that photosynthesis was under way and that the plants were not dormant...
...could minute plants live in a cloud? Many of them, Parker decided, are large enough to act as nuclei for slowly condensing droplets of water-an essential ingredient for all earthly life. The tiny organisms also have an amazingly varied diet available even in unpolluted clouds: oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, ammonium, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, butane and acetone. Such necessary minerals as potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron and magnesium could be transported to the clouds in airborne soil and dust particles...
...Powers of Ten, one such idea film that Eames presented in 1968 to a meeting of America's top physicists, sketches a linear zoom to the farthest known point in the galaxies down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. What makes the film almost surreal at times is the starting point-the wrist of a man lying on Miami Beach-and the narrator, a serious female voice. Yet, whether physicist or child, one gets a feeling for the dimensions of time and space...