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...recent construction of a reactor in Gravel Neck, Virginia, the welding superintendent admitted that as many as 5000 welds in vital parts of the structure could be defective. A cooling water failure might precipitate a "runaway" which could cause a high-power steam explosion within one-hundredth of a second. Vernon's emergency cooling system takes from three to ten seconds to become effectively operational...
...celebrated each other's hundredth birthdays this year by exchanging a hundred of the most celebrated works from each museum. This exhibition demonstrates that the Met is unquestionably one of the great storehouses of Western painting, but the Met and the MFA could both take a few lessons in pedagogy from Rousseau's education of Emile. We, the audience, no longer think as children...
...Brewer, 27, invented a "sticky fingers" peace sign for a Pittsburgh radio station. It was made of vinyl and could be stuck on everything from car windows to people. Then, Eileen Pittler remembers, "I woke up one morning to find my Paul Newman poster had fallen down for the hundredth time." Together, Eileen and George designed a flat vinyl-like, baroque frame that sticks to a wall, can be adjusted to fit pictures of various sizes. From there, the designers went on to produce other kinds of stick-on mock furniture...
...m.p.h. Coast Guard launch for the Potomac cruise to Mount Vernon. At the Smithsonian, she was intrigued by the astronaut space suits, and asked U.S. Moonman Neil Armstrong: "Is there a danger of a rip?" Replied the relaxed Armstrong: "The difference between eternity and life is about one one-hundredth of an inch of rubber...
...French designers settled on plutonium-238 as the best radioactive source. The artificially produced element emits "soft" alpha particles, which have so little energy that they will not penetrate a sheet of heavy notepaper; thus they will not harm a patient. The French put 150 mg. (about one two-hundredth of an ounce) of Pu-238 into a capsule of platinum and tantalum. The Americans put 500 mg. (one-sixtieth of an ounce) in their capsule. In both devices, the patient is sufficiently shielded from the heat of the radioactive source by its plastic container. That heat is directed...