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...nuclear fire that at the first stage affected the technicians in the plant," noted Selidovkin. "But there was no cesium 137 introduced into their bodies. Here the irradiation was both incorporated and local." Leide das Neves Ferreira, 6, who had eaten a cesium-tainted sandwich, continued to emit 25 rads a day, even after repeated efforts at decontamination. At that rate, the radioactivity in her body was destroying her bone marrow before it could produce white blood cells...
...biosphere that threatens to tip the balance. To be sure, many of its effects are natural and as such have long been part of the climatic equilibrium. Termites, for example, produce enormous amounts of gas as they digest woody vegetation: a single termite mound can emit five liters of methane a minute. The methane escapes into the atmosphere, where it can not only destroy ozone but also act as a greenhouse gas in its own right. "Termites," says Environmental Chemist Patrick Zimmerman, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, "could be responsible for as much as 50% of the total...
Phobos will glide between 98 and 260 ft. above the moon's surface -- "something similar to a cruise missile," quips Sagdeyev -- and drop an instrument-bearing minilander to record data on the moon's soil. One experiment involves a laser that will emit short bursts of energy, each vaporizing a square millimeter of surface into a cloud that can be analyzed by the probe's spectrometer. "You can pick up such exploded material from many different places," says Sagdeyev. "In the end you have a chemical map of the surface of Phobos -- if you are lucky...
...medicine, superconducting magnets are at the heart of magnetic resonance- imaging machines. The magnets' powerful fields first align the atoms of the body. Then a pulse of radio waves knocks them momentarily out of alignment. When the atoms return to their previous attitudes, they emit radiation that produces detailed images of the body's soft tissues. MRI machines in use today are enormous (6 ft. by 8 ft. by 10 ft.), largely because of the more than $100,000 worth of bulky insulation required to preserve the liquid helium coolant, which costs an additional $30,000 annually. The improved economics...
With that I lowered myself to the ground and crawled chest to earth between the rows of strawberries, trying not to emit the sound that would send the fanged canines to do me in. I was too scared to visualize the surreal implications of my plight. Each foot was emotionally exhausting, each moment a frame from a real-life thriller. And all I wanted was fantasy: the mundane reality waiting at Cinderella's Castle...