Word: earth
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...idea comes from M.I.T. Astrophysicist Alan Barrett, who decided that the same electronic wizardry that was enabling him to tune in to microwaves from free-floating molecules in interstellar space could have a down-to-earth application. If they were reduced in size, he reasoned, the sensitive antennas could even pick up the weak microwave (or heat) emissions from a tumor...
...sounded a massive gong to begin a memorial sutra, the worshipers paid their silent respects to Hikotaro's memory. According to the Buddhist calendar, it was the 33rd anniversary of his death-the date on which the spirits of the dead are believed to depart forever from the earth...
Beckerman, 52, a tailor's son who managed to get to Cambridge after the war on an ex-serviceman's scholarship, enjoys the jousting with the doomsayers. The most ardent conservationists, he scoffs, are elitists with a "trendy" argument that rarely gets more sophisticated than "stopping the earth at once before it's too late." This aristocratic posture, he says, allows the well-heeled to display "exquisite sensibilities, moral virtue and subtle perceptions." What upper-class conservationists are really concerned about, he insists, is saving their "salmon streams and grouse moors." Little fuss is ever made...
These conditions exist, more or less, in the sun and other stars, where the tremendous gravitational forces of the giant bodies, combined with their huge amounts of hydrogen, produce self-sustaining fusion reactions. But producing controlled fusion on earth is a far more difficult task-and to do it practically and economically may well be the most complicated technological venture ever attempted. Says Physicist Gerald Yonas of New Mexico's Sandia Laboratories, a federally supported atomic research facility: "It's the most exciting area today in science. Fusion power is a mountain we have to climb...
...During a student strike at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1970, Novelist John Earth, a teacher there, remarked: "I'm totally bored by the situation, the critical importance of which I absolutely affirm." If they are to succeed with the Russians, U.S. negotiators must always cultivate a certain fatalism. The Soviets sign agreements when they believe it is valuable for them to do so; otherwise, they do not sign...