Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report estimated that if the satellite fell back to earth five years after shutdown, 442 people would die. The satellite the U.S. is actually designing is almost twice as radioactive as the one discussed in the report...
Luckily, Aftergood isn't the only person concerned about these dangers. In May of last year, a joint Soviet-American committee of scientists presented a proposal calling for a ban on nuclear reactors in earth orbit. The committee included Roald Sagdeev, a close adviser to Gorbachev and the leader of the U.S.S.R.'s space program, and a group from the Federation of American Scientists...
...disheveled girls on the banks of the Seine, in the painting that initiated a spate of such images among the impressionists 20 years later, are drawn into the earth, their limbs and puffy faces asserting the heaviness of sleep. His trellised roses are inordinately fleshy; his apples, red and bruised -- no perfect objects of oral desire here -- are solid as stone. He painted hair, especially the thick curly tresses of Whistler's Irish mistress Jo Heffernan, as though he were running his fingers through...
...friendly folks of Neshoba County. Reporters from all over tested the residents' hospitality. Navy frogmen fished the lakes and ponds, searching for evidence of the local hunters' blood sport. In August, thanks to a $30,000 payoff to an informant, the FBI discovered the bodies in a new earth dam. Four months later, the Philadelphia sheriff, his deputy and 17 others were arrested, and in 1967 seven of the 19 (including the deputy but not his boss) were convicted of conspiracy to murder...
...earth upside down," warns Mark Petricone as his 13 students struggle with coat hangers and pliers. "And remember, folks, the earth isn't really in the middle of the universe. This is an incorrect scale model, but astronomers have been using it for a couple of thousand years...