Word: fusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a biological time bomb in Maine's north woods armed with a fuse set to explode it in a month. Awakened by the warming sun, billions of tiny spruce-budworm larvae will hatch and turn into ravenous caterpillars, ready to eat all the needles and buds on spruce and balsam fir, hemlock and tamarack. Before their appetite is sated, the budworms are expected to chew their way through some 6 million acres of conifers. For 3.5 million of those acres-an area larger than Connecticut-this will be the third straight year of defoliation, and even healthy...
...Stepford, realize what is afoot in this too, too peaceful Connecticut town and get out before they are traded hi for living dolls? He manages to work up some reasonable suspense over this matter. Somehow, though, the writer's prime concern and the director's never quite fuse...
...even Tess Slesinger. The last story in the book is the most gripping and the most disturbing. It is the story of a writer who goes through hell to churn out a short story but finally hits on a plot where everything works where the words and characters fuse together take off on their own, and make a great story. "Listen, non-writers, this is passion" the writer shouts in hymn to creation...
Fusion, on the other hand, requires extreme pressure and temperatures as high as 100 million degrees. Under these conditions, the nuclei of light atoms are energized (or speeded up) enough so that they can overcome their mutually repulsive electrical charges, collide and fuse. In the hydrogen bomb, the necessary pressures and temperatures are produced by first setting off a fission explosion. Controlling and containing fusion will be vastly more difficult, but scientists believe that the Russian-invented Tokamak (for "Toroidal Kamera Magnetic") system can be developed into a practical and safe reactor...
...several years ago, when a powerful charge ran in a complete circuit from one arm to the other, passing through his heart. He was almost knocked unconscious, but his first thoughts were, "What went wrong?" He quickly realized that there were two ways to install a fuse, and one of them could lead to accidents like his. "That's probably the best way to learn," he says, laughing...