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...stars age, they eject matter, which causes them to spin down as angular momentum is carried away, explains Ross D. Cohen of the University of California at San Diego. If stars contract, they may spin up by this effect alone. The spin up of stars is apparently possible during periods when star contraction is much more rapid than matter ejection...
...bomber had already started to dive toward the Mojave Desert when a chase plane radioed to Co-Pilot Doug Benefield, "How are you doing, Doug?" Replied Benefield: "We may have to punch it. We have to punch." Those were his last known words. Command Pilot Richard Reynolds pulled the eject handle, flinging the cock pit and its three-man crew free of the plane just 9 sec. before it slammed into the ground. Two of the men escaped with injuries...
...swept clear as she went under me," Sefton remembers. "As I stood on the poop rail I thought, 'Jump!' I went under water for a few seconds. A life raft was 30 ft. away. I thought, 'Oh God, swim!' " The orange rafts were designed to eject and inflate automatically in an emergency, and they did. Clifton McMillan, 16, of Fairfield, Conn., who had just finished his watch when the squall hit, managed to jump into a raft. He saw Bill Earnhardt, 24, of Wycombe, Pa., in the water near by, reached out, and yanked...
Some of the phenomena astronomers hope to probe include dense clouds of celestial dust where new stars are being formed and "cool stars" which eject gas into interstellar space. The telescopes will also allow more accurate measurement of distant objects in space...
...watch both Argentine and British military movements. The intelligence-gathering space vehicles perform various functions. Two were put up to intercept communications. Two others were radar-sensing satellites designed to pick up radar transmissions, particularly from ships. Several were reconnaissance satellites that photograph objects on land or sea and eject capsules of exposed film when the satellites pass over the U.S.S.R. The capsules parachute to earth for recovery and processing...