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...negotiation, on 38 tons as the maximum weight for a long-haul truck, but they still have not stipulated how this weight should" be distributed over each axle. Five of the six prefer 13-ton limits per axle, but the Dutch, because of their soggy, shifting subsoil, demand a lighter weight of ten tons. Similarly, in designing a common farm tractor, the Dutch want safety features to prevent the tractor from toppling backward as it pulls attachments through their heavy-clay lowland soil. The French want a tractor engineered not to topple sideways on the hills, where much French farming...
Harvard's strength this year is in the lighter weight classes, a considerable change from the past three seasons...
...dust and fragments tossed out by teh meteor impacts that blasted the two craters, and since they lie on top of most other lunar features, they are listed among the youngest parts of the moonscape. But O'Keefe also found a conspicuous black mark showing starkly against the lighter background of one of Tycho's rays. The ray had not dusted the mark with light-colored material - circumstantial evidence that suggests the mark must be more recent than the meteor impact that formed Tycho's crater. Dr. O'Keefe noticed, too, that the mark...
Lankton and Whitesides rolled up three firsts between them, but faltered on Sunday when the light breezes became even lighter, and began to shift unpredictably...
...square root of op art are the essentially static visual phenomena that enslave and enthrall the eye. The op artist's job is to turn those illusions into sleights of art. Some examine the way a single color looks darker than it is against a lighter background. Some, like Steele, place contrasting shapes together, which cause the eye to perceive them alternately as figure and ground; the theory is that such shifts move between stimulation and repose, possibly to relieve eyestrain. Richard Anuszkiewicz, 34, plays with afterimages, or the way one color engenders the false sensation of its complement...