Word: layering
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...obsolescent. Actually, it is more than talk; the building was constructed with $200,000 worth of extra foundations for new wings. According to Brown, it will not be long before the remainder of those dinosaur bones in the La Brea Tar Pits are covered with a newer, more elegant layer of civilization...
...white material to reflect all possible sunlight, for maintaining tolerable temperatures is one of the major problems in the design of space suits. Because sunlight in space is twice as strong as at the bottom of the atmosphere, and contains ultraviolet rays that quickly weaken many materials, the outer layer of a space suit must not only ward off light and heal, but must be proof against ultraviolet...
Almost as dangerous as radiant heat is the fearful cold of space, which strikes wherever an object is shadowed from the sun. If an astronaut stays long out of sunlight, as may be necessary on future space missions, his body heat will tend to leak away. Thus the outer layer must be made of material that does not radiate too much heat. The Russians have not told what they use for a space-suit coating, only that it is white...
...Viet Cong waited until a thick layer of rain cloud covered the mountain crests around Kannack. Insured against U.S. jet attacks, they struck, nearly 1,000 strong, at the camp's north, south and east flanks. Dozens of assault squads in black shorts and green kerchiefs of parachute silk slipped up to the barbed-wire perimeter carrying Bangalore torpedoes. There followed bangs galore...
...easy to run down the menu and pick poached filet of sole, champagne sauce-"perhaps one gram for the flour in the sauce; highly recommended"-or filet mignon, béarnaise sauce-"one gram for the eggs; no danger here." But as for a chocolate malted and mocha layer cake, "150 grams!-jamais de la vie!" The "grisly alternative" of a reducing diet is listed in terms of defatted French dressing, vegetable-burger ("a dry, scratchy mass of grated carrots, soybeans, daisy petals, etc."), skim milk and dry toast...