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Hajjis chanted "Labbaika Allahuma Labbaika," [God, here we are, responding to your summons] in unison as they walked in heat that reached 115 degrees Fahrenheit...
...dealing in extremes, but no one had ever discovered anything like this before: a pair of superdense stars a mere 80,000 miles apart, locked in a gravitational embrace, one orbiting the other every 11 1/2 minutes and spewing X rays at a temperature of 50 million degrees Fahrenheit. Says Nicholas White of the European Space Agency's EXOSAT observatory in Darmstadt, West Germany: "What we've got is a system you could fit between the earth and the moon that generates 100,000 times more luminosity than...
Adelman said temperatures reached as high as 4000 degrees Centigrade (7232 degrees Fahrenheit) at the graphite-cooled reactor. He said the graphite is burning and will continue to burn "for a good number of days...
...fact, Garlits has just such a computer already. He puts on a squeaky little computer voice: "It says, 'What is the observed altitude?' So I have an altimeter, right? I punch in the observed altitude. It says, 'What is the observed temperature in Fahrenheit?' I punch it all in, and the screen goes blank and thinks about it. It pops up then and says, 'The adjusted altitude is 1,800 ft.' " Garlits sets his fuel-air mixture accordingly. The computer knows things he can only guess...
That work consisted of more than 400 short stories, film scripts of his novel Fahrenheit 451 for Francois Truffaut and of Moby Dick for John Huston, TV adaptations of Bradbury tales, plus poems, articles and plays. By his early 20s, the son of an impoverished electrical lineman had begun to write his way out of the Depression. The familiar Bradbury style was set early: an amalgam of myth, sentiment and evocations of Poe and H.G. Wells. At 26 he was already being asked where he got all his ideas. With that kind of reader interest, he felt secure enough...