Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...driving ambition of most of our students to succeed, a spirit many of them carried from the Charleston Movement, spilled over into the class room. In the 95 degree heat of the South Carolina lowland summer, they voluntarily attended classes six hours a day. They started classes themselves when the teachers were late. They stayed after classes were supposed to end, talking about Raisin in the Sun, set theory, Storm Thurmond, and Malcolm X. Most of them did more homework in those six weeks than they had in the previous year. None droped...
...energy needs of the U.S. could be supplied by a dozen nuclear generating stations spotted around the country, each with a capacity on the order of 60,000 megawatts (v. 1,974 megawatts for Grand Coulee). If one such station were built on Mount Wilson above Los Angeles, the heat produced as a byproduct could be guided into the atmosphere, raising the inversion layer that hangs over Los Angeles to 19,000 feet, thus ridding the city of smog. A sea breeze could be drawn into the space beneath, bringing rain that would transform the high desert between Los Angeles...
...Operation Octane," the brawny truckers know it as "the hell run." Attracted by Zambian government offers of up to $450 per trip, they travel night and day, seldom stopping to sleep. They fortify themselves against danger with python-skin juju charms, but their defense against the heat is more practical: bags of water laced with...
...estimated pressure at the earth's inner core (3,000,000 atmospheres), he used the experimentally derived density of iron at this pressure -about twice its density at sea level. Putting that figure into his formula, he arrived at a new and more realistic estimate of the heat in the earth's iron core: only...
Kennedy's findings should alter most theories about the thermal history of the earth, and help scientists learn more about how heat escapes from the earth's interior. In addition, the formula final ly establishes a correct relationship be tween a substance in its solid and liquid states, besides offering a new approach to studies of the melting process. In retrospect, Kennedy's discovery might seem obvious, but the startling truth is that generations of scientists overlooked it. "The profession must be full of asses," says Nobel Prize Chemist Willard Libby, discoverer of the carbon-14 dating...