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...start of every year Kennedy goes on a liquid diet to shed excess pounds. Aside from consomme and diet sodas, his meals consist of diet shakes. During the six-to-seven-week period, which usually ends on his birthday, Feb. 22, after a loss of 30 or 40 lbs., he avoids alcohol...
...activity. The devices will also conduct tests of the skies throughout the electromagnetic spectrum, using X rays, visible light and infrared light. These sensitive instruments were developed by a team of scientists from Germany, the Netherlands, the U.S. and the European Space Agency. The four monitors will all use liquid and solid crystals to record the origin of gamma- ) ray sources. As the rays smash into the crystals, they produce flashes of light called scintillations. Those data will be measured and sent back to earth. One of the instruments will track gamma-ray bursts, events that until recently some scientists...
...idea behind Timberwind is simple. Just pump liquid hydrogen through a small nuclear reactor heated to several thousand degrees Fahrenheit. The liquid hydrogen is instantly converted to hydrogen gas, which then blasts out of a nozzle. The resulting thrust is two to three times as great as that generated in conventional rocket engines by the explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Much larger payloads could thus be lifted into orbit...
...designers are getting into the act: Donna Karan and Bill Blass offer more congenially priced ready-to-wear fashion lines. Revlon's Charles of the Ritz has sprouted the cheaper Ritz Express skin-care line (1 oz. of Perfect Finish makeup: $10, vs. $25 for an ounce of Revenescence liquid foundation...
...many Kuwaitis operated on their own. Since Iraqi soldiers examining cars at checkpoints frequently stole whatever was in sight, some Kuwaitis added rat poison to bottles of orange juice and then hid them in the trunk. Iraqi sentries would discover and seize the bottles -- and presumably drink the tainted liquid later...