Word: diameterically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pretty or not, that kind of romance has kept the California condor around since saber-toothed tigers roamed the Sierra Nevada. Whether the bird will continue to survive, however, has been in serious doubt since the last century. As North America's largest land bird, the condor has always...
Zeroing in on Saturn's moons, Voyager 2 discovered surprising contrasts between those icy little worlds. Hyperion, for example, is a small, distant moon shaped like a battered Idaho potato (or, as NASA scientists variously had it, a "hamburger patty" or a mouse-gnawed "hockey puck"). Tethys, closer in...
Designed by Peter Chermayeff, 45, chief architect of Cambridge Seven Associates, the building improves upon concepts the firm used in 1970 for Boston's successful New England Aquarium. Chermayeff describes the layout as similar to a symphony, with a linear structure following an "ABA" rhythm. The exhibits constitute the...
The study, conducted between 1973 and 1980 by Dr. Umberto Veronesi and colleagues at Italy's National Cancer Institute, involved 701 women with tumors less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter. About half underwent radical mastectomies; the rest had "quadrantectomies," losing only the quarter of the breast...
The E-3A Sentry, with its Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), is not outwardly impressive: an unremarkable Boeing 707 with a rotating disc, 30 ft. in diameter, mounted gawkily on its fuselage. The Sentry is outfitted with not a single gun or missile, and as jets go it is...