Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belt, Scientist Van Allen told the American Physical Society at Chicago, seems to be a great doughnut made chiefly of fast-moving electrons and protons circulating around the earth on both sides of its magnetic equator (see diagram). Only the lower parts have been observed with any accuracy. The upper limits are deduced from knowledge of the magnetic field. The Air Force's Pioneer, soaring far past the 1,400-mile level reached by the Explorers, confirmed "tentatively and partially" that the lethal radiation drops off sharply around 7,000 miles...
...Allen thinks most of the particles come from the sun, shot out by eruptions and trapped by the earth's magnetic field. The strength of the radiation belt is probably variable, like the amount of water in a leaky bucket that is filled at irregular intervals. When the sun is quiet, the particles in the belt gradually leak down to the atmosphere and disappear perhaps causing the aurora. The belt grows weaker and weaker until a new transfusion of particles from the sun makes it strong again...
...Odysseus as his own hero, Kazantzakis has underlined the audacity of his undertaking. His 33,333 lines measure its vastness. But the poem's real boldness lies not so much in affinities or in size as in what it sets out to do: to relate man to the earth and his own appetites, to describe his need for God and the tortuous spiritual route of the search, and finally to show how man attempts to exorcise his private and worldly devils in a never-ending quest, not for peace of mind but for freedom of soul...
Beyond the Pagan World. The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel is a huge repository of bloody adventure, eroticism, brutal sights and sounds, magnificent descriptions of the earth, sea and sky and all their wonders. Man's coarsest appetites and his noblest aspirations exist side by side in Odysseus, and he is as ready to seduce a simple girl by pretending to be a god as he is to admit his doubts about himself and the human condition...
...foot-long, 13-pound nose cone was tracked to a height of 66,654 miles before the force of the earth's gravity whisked it back from its probe of outer space...