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...there are limits to the sorties a satellite can make; usually it will exhaust its rocket fuel after six or seven months. When that happens, the Soviet controllers radio commands that explode the satellite into nuclear and nonnuclear components. The nonnuclear parts are allowed to sink back into the atmosphere, where most of the metal burns up in the frictional heat of reentry. The reactor is lifted with one last spurt of rocket fuel to an altitude of 500 to 600 miles, where it can drift safely for hundreds of years...
...University will try to determine if the $250 million plant's diesel exhaust system poses cancer risks to the surrounding community. The tests represent the latest snag in the University's six year-long attempts to begin operating the plant...
...panel's most distressing discovery was a stray steel chip, perhaps a burr from a screw, in an exhaust vent of the suit's oxygen supply system. If the fragment had been in the pure oxygen area and caused a spark (by hitting a wall, for example), it might have touched off a catastrophic flash fire, killing Lenoir and possibly ripping a fatal hole in Columbia's sides as well. In fact, a suit did catch fire in a test at Houston two years ago; fortunately no one was wearing it. It was so incinerated that...
...sumo wrestler. Price: $580,000. His bride's three ceremonial kimonos alone cost $370,000. One minor craze in the current Nipponese nuptial season is the extravagant "performance" wedding. At one service, the star-struck couple ascended to the ceiling in a makeshift space capsule trailing dry-ice exhaust...
...helmet, but around the black leather reclining seat the sybaritic unit includes such accessories as a miniature Sony color TV, a stereo system with color transposer for both interior and exterior light shows, a "thermos faucet system" to supply a flow of beverages, a wireless telephone and "whisper" exhaust fans. Price: $32,000. If a desire to work should suddenly take hold, the relaxing executive can unsnap the 18-karat-gold clasps of a black crocodile attaché case ($25,000, from Dunhill), fitted with two gold pens, pencil, cardcase and lighter...