Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...financially dependent on Pretoria, which will also advise on BophuthaTswana's diplomatic and defense affairs. Nonetheless, the new homeland has a considerable economic potential: at present it accounts for two-thirds of the total platinum production in the Western world. It is also rich in asbestos, granite, vanadium, chromium and manganese. By 1979 the homeland should be receiving direct mining revenues of about $30 million a year. But only 10% of BophuthaTswana's total land area is arable, and much of that is covered with scrub brush...
...Pain. Developed by Dr. Theodore Waugh, 48, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of California at Irvine (U.C.I.), the new joint is a two-piece arrangement that weighs only five ounces. One part of Waugh's "U.C.I, ankle" is an inverted T made of a chromium and cobalt alloy with a concave tip. The other part is an alloy half dome...
Shaky Ground. The Russians, led by Physicist Georgy N. Flerov, last June claimed a similar achievement using another technique: firing nuclei of chromium into lead. That produced a slightly different isotope of element 106 with an even shorter half-life of less than one-hundredth of a second. The Berkeley group was highly skeptical. Said Ghiorso: "The proof they presented is marginal. I think they are on shaky ground...
...attractive. It is, in fact, a rather Vonnegutian idea. One of the fragments collected here proposes a sensibly loony scheme by which everyone in the country would get a new middle name and a lot of new relatives chosen arbitrarily by computer. The names would be words like Daffodil, Chromium, and so on, and they would signify clans. Each Daffodil would have 19,999 fellow clansmen spread out around the U.S. to be treated as relatives: to be cared for, cursed, feuded with, borrowed from, nursed, loved and hated. To be taken notice of in a human...
...oppressively high. Though American bauxite reserves are limited, there is an abundance of other clays and ores from which aluminum could be produced-at increased cost. Rising foreign prices would also make it worthwhile to dig out less accessible mineral deposits and thus open up large new reserves of chromium, copper, iron ore and other materials. Proven American reserves of lead total 36 million tons, easily enough to last through this century-and probably a lot longer-because so much lead is recycled. In addition, U.S. industry could substitute amply supplied materials for scarce ones (plastics for tin, for example...