Word: leape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like a chubby, winged torpedo but flies like an underwater bird. Compared with the hard-to-maneuver submersibles that now haul deep-sea explorers sluggishly around the oceans, Deep Flight is an aquatic F-16 fighter. It can perform barrel rolls, race a fast-moving pod of whales or leap vertically right out of the sea. With a touch on the controls, a skilled pilot--who lies prone in a body harness, his or her head protruding into the craft's hemispherical glass nose--can skim just below the ocean's surface or plunge thousands of feet below...
...seemed to have been spared; but they were on a special list. "Day by day, Japan turned into a furnace from which the voice of a people searching for food rose in anguish," wrote Shigemitsu. "And yet the clarion call was accepted. If the Emperor ordained it, they would leap into the flames." On Okinawa, Marine Private Eugene Sledge and his compatriots prepared for the invasion "with complete resignation that we would be killed...
...atoms with lasers, slowing them to a crawl (heat is really just the motion of atoms and molecules; slowing therefore equals cooling). Then they put the atoms in a magnetic "bottle" that allowed the faster-moving, more energetic atoms to escape; those left behind were cooler. Finally, in a leap of ingenuity that enabled this scientific team to outflank its rivals, the Boulder scientists rotated the magnetic field so that the few cold atoms that were leaking through a weak point in the bottle couldn't find this one escape route...
...back off or laugh it off, but more and more, he was consumed with this stuff. He continued to talk about [a nuclear] Armageddon. In fact, he got target-locked on it. He was becoming obsessed with post-[nuclear]-holocaust government intrusion. And then you take the quantum leap from [nuclear war] and Soviet invasion to [present-day] government involvement, left-wing infiltration into the government...
...excuse me, my Power-book is calling. Marion Gammill's work is done here, it's time for...mbgammil@fas.harvard.edu. Can I leap tall buildings in a single bound? What do you think the World Wide...