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...their bellies, an avian comedy. On land, they flop along on their stomachs. When it rains, they mistake highways for lakes, come down like thunderbolts. People are always tending their abrasions and taking them back to ponds. To take off, they need as much as a quarter-mile of liquid runway, and no one can watch the spectacle without praying Godspeed−they have to try so hard. They are an aeronautical nightmare, a nautical dream−they are faster than fish, which they eat. Grown, they weigh up to 9 Ibs. They sleep in the water. The only adjective...
Second and third attempts will become easier and less costly with the wider use of cryopreservation, a process in which unused embryos are frozen in liquid nitrogen. The embryos can be thawed and then transferred to the woman's uterus, eliminating the need to repeat egg retrieval and fertilization. Some 30% to 50% of embryos do not survive the deep freeze. Those that do may actually have a better chance of successful implantation than do newly fertilized embryos. This is because the recipient has not been given hormones to stimulate ovulation, a treatment that may actually interfere with implantation...
...Liquid explosives...
...were not surprised that the two men were able to board the Aeropostal flight carrying pistols. However, the Air France hijackers eluded security checks at Frankfurt International Airport, which boasts some of the toughest safeguards in the world. No airport X-ray machine or magnetic scanner can detect the liquid explosives the men carried. Moreover, some hostages believe the guns were in a mysterious bag delivered to the hijackers by Iranians at the Tehran airport...
Discovery's engine No. 3 had already helped power three shuttle missions, and its age was showing. About 6 sec. before blastoff, a heated mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen was supposed to be pumped forcefully through the engine's main fuel line into a central combustion chamber, where it would ignite. But the 10 ¼ in. long, 74-lb. fuel valve faltered a fraction of a second in opening, prompting the central computer system to abort the entire mission. Of the three main engines, only No. 2 had been fully ignited. During its 1.7 sec. ignition...