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Once they had reached the hospital grounds, the victims seemed to faint, collapsing to the ground as if they had walked their final mile. They looked exhausted, like soldiers at the end of a battle. After waiting patiently, often for up to six hours, the victims were treated with civility and tenderness by the doctors and nurses. The army was there too, keeping the human traffic flowing without the usual pushing and shoving. The troops had set up 60 tents, which became instant wards for 20 people each. Some distance away, the army had set up a morgue to which...
...atmosphere is the quivering needle of the G-meter. For days, the needle has been fixed at zero, as if it were painted on the dial. Now it shudders to life and slowly begin to rise. Then there is an unmistakable whisper of rushing air, at first almost too faint to hear, then louder and louder still A faint red glow appears at the edges of the cockpit windows, then spreads across them and seems to curl up over the fuselage ... As it slows and the air no longer supports its raised nose, the forward landing gear falls with...
Despite the billions of stars in the galaxy, most are too faint to measure accurately, Large telescopes, such as the Multiple Mirror Telescope of the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Arizona near Tuscon, are employed to collect the necessary data...
...Smith and Terrile trained a 100-in. telescope on one of those stars, Beta Pictoris, which was then visible high in the sky. Taking a photograph, however, turned out to be extremely difficult. Beta is twice as bright as the sun, and its light easily overwhelms that from any faint material around it. Trying to discern the surrounding matter, says Terrile, was "like trying to see a match next to a flashbulb...
...serious subjects. Reagan described the meeting in his Saturday radio address as "useful" and aides said that despite the lack of concrete accomplishment, the President "felt it had gone about as well as he could expect." It is indeed possible that his session with Gromyko marked some real, though faint, warming of the atmosphere between the White House and the Kremlin. Any reasonably polite talk is a welcome contrast to the frozen silence that has enveloped U.S.-Soviet relations for the past year...