Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apart over a remote region of northern Canada in 1978, the use of atomic reactors in space has been highly controversial. Once again the debate over nukes in orbit has heated up. Last April the Soviets lost control of another nuclear satellite, raising fears that it would fall to earth before they managed to boost the reactor into a safer, high-altitude orbit. Then, at a scientific conference in New Mexico last month, the Soviets said they had begun putting a new generation of powerful reactors in space and were even interested in selling them to the West...
...seminar at Paine Hall yesterday, Cage was down-to-earth and direct about his conception of music and performance...
...helps select and edit the 20 or so missives that appear every week. Among our recent correspondents: George Bush, who disputed our statement that the median U.S. family income had remained relatively constant since 1977, and Peter Ueberroth, TIME's 1984 Man of the Year, who praised the endangered-earth story...
...spend an average of 31.7 seconds in the john compared with 1 minute 33 seconds for women. As if that were not evidence enough of the country's efficiency, Professor Nishioka has another statistic that illustrates Japanese competitiveness: every day, Japan uses enough toilet paper to circle the earth tenfold...
...operates out of a bare room in an industrial mall in Pinellas Park, Fla. The hulking chamber, with a glass window at one end, resembles those gadgets in science fiction movies that hold spacemen in a state of suspended animation while they hurtle toward distant galaxies light-years from earth. The chamber doesn't work that way, however. What it does is draw the moisture from dead organisms until they are mummified in a perfectly preserved state...