Word: diagrams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most effective way of freeing trapped dolphins from a net that is full and cinched shut at the bottom is for the ship laying the net to run in reverse, dragging the net and its finny contents into an elongated shape (see diagram). Crewmen in rubber rafts then drive the surface-swimming dolphins toward one end, and as the ship pulls the net, the dolphins spill out, leaving the tuna behind. Despite these efforts, an average of eight dolphins die during each netting, often at night, when freeing them is more difficult...
...unequipped with a set of inhibitions will begin to dismantle the system for their own amusement. But one rarely hears a revolutionary cry these days to overthrow the Republic. There are rhythms in these matters. Nineteen years ago, the New York Review of Books published on its cover a diagram, with instructions, of how to make a Molotov cocktail--to be hurled, obviously, in the direction of the ruling class. Thirty-one years ago, the columnist Murray Kempton wrote, "It is already very hard to remember that, only a generation ago, there were a number of Americans of significant character...
...quasar produce two images? The answer, astronomers say, lies in a "gravitational lens," an immense object with a powerful gravitational field located somewhere between the quasar and the earth. As light from the quasar approaches the object, it is diverted from its original path by the intense field (see diagram) and produces what earthbound observers see as multiple images...
Although the Soviets kept virtually silent about the origins of last week's accident, Western experts in Moscow and elsewhere were gradually piecing together the probable sequence of events that led to disaster (see diagram). The trouble seems to have begun Saturday, April 26, when a mishap caused a loss of the water that continuously cools the uranium fuel rods in the reactor's core. With the coolant gone, superheated steam could have triggered ) a series of irreversible reactions leading to a meltdown of the fuel and a blast that ripped through the roof of the building that housed Unit...
...epic oil plunge of the 1980s started out slowly and a bit remotely. To most people, it was just a downward-sloping diagram on the financial page, an abstract reminder of the mysterious world of desert oil wells, filthy-rich Arabs and the irritating antics of OPEC. But suddenly oil's new situation is hitting home with the wallop of a 42-gal. oil barrel dropped on the front porch. Last week consumers, businessmen and traders around the world watched in awe as the price of crude dipped below $10 per bbl. for the first time in almost a decade...