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...nasty surprises. Last March a violent explosion deep inside Irazú threw up a shower of rocks, some weighing as much as two tons. A dark cloud of gritty ash spread across the sky, and soon drifted down to cover the pretty little Central American city with a layer of what looked like dirty snow...
Researchers in the labs of Monsanto Chemical Co. have learned to turn out a mouth-watering layer cake, but it is better to look at than to eat. Baked right into it are a quartz rod and a telescope. These two ingredients make it possible for a Kodak movie camera posted outside the glass oven door to take pictures of just what goes on inside a baking cake. Monsanto, a producer of leavening agents tor cake-mix companies, designed the study to discover the best leavening combination for each mix. Its experiment is just one of the hundreds of ways...
...north around the Arctic Circle, scientists and engineers have been engaged for years in a cold war that knows no politics. From both sides of the Iron Curtain, volunteers enlist in the fight against a common enemy: permafrost, the iron-hard layer of dirt and rock bonded together by year-round ice. Permafrost underlies 20% of the earth's land area. It is 150 ft. thick at Fair banks, Alaska, more than 2,000 ft. thick beneath the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia. Permafrost blocks well shafts, freezes oil drills, makes water piping and sewage disposal costly, heaves...
...first six Trident Scholars are steaming in deep waters. Midshipman Clark Graham, who is also captain of the squash team, is studying ways to reduce underwater boundary-layer drag on submarines, for example. Others are pondering modern Argentine history, the future use of lasers in naval gunnery, the effect of radiation on transistors, the accuracy of navigational methods, and a potential heteropoly acid combining gallium and tungsten. The young scholars range far off base, from the Bell Telephone labs to a nuclear sub cruise...
...connect Dover and Calais by means of a 32-mile, $407 million railroad tunnel. The committee found either of two approaches feasible: a brace of segmented "immersed tubes" that would run across the channel floor, or a trio of cross-connected tunnels bored through the soft lower chalk layer 160 feet beneath the bottom...