Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Passengers on the lower decks were not given a choice, and so, while almost all the women in first class escaped, nearly half of those in third class drowned. There was also an element of happenstance. Boat No. 1, which could have held 40 people, departed with only twelve. While John Jacob Astor went stoically to his death, Henry Sleeper Harper managed to find lifeboat room not just for himself but for his Pekingese, Sun Yat-sen, and an Egyptian dragoman he was bringing home on a whim. Benjamin Guggenheim changed into evening clothes for the occasion...
...consider myself a very good lecturer," concludes Cox, adding, "I love the performance element. Pacing, timing, voice intonation, and a lot of eye contact" are the key to his success, he adds...
...astronomer, Gold approached the puzzle with a fresh perspective. He knew that carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the solar system, appearing in planets, asteroids, meteors and comets, often in the form of hydrocarbons. Gold believes that when the primordial gaseous swirl condensed into the sun and its satellites, large amounts of hydrocarbons settled in the earth's interior. Some of those compounds seeped upward into porous rocks and sediments, says Gold, and became such accessible pockets of riches as the oil fields of the Arabian Peninsula. He predicts that if greater depths were mined, fuel reserves...
...developing space-weapons systems. The very fact that the U.S. is now planning to test a second-generation antisatellite system is fraught with the most serious consequences. We will surely react. This test, in effect a test of a second-generation ASAT system, means in fact testing an element of a space-based...
This we are witnessing against the background of a negative response to our proposal for the U.S. to join the moratorium on nuclear explosions. The U.S. does not want to join that moratorium for one simple reason, among others: the U.S. needs nuclear testing to provide the nuclear element for space lasers. It has to be used to produce an X-ray laser effect. All these are elements in the space-based antiballistic missile defense. Think then what would happen if the whole thing goes full steam ahead. We believe America should give honest thought to these matters before proceeding...