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...size as Earth, Venus has an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. These gases have created an atmospheric pressure at the surface 90 times that of Earth and led to a greenhouse effect that keeps the temperature at 470 degrees C (900 degrees F), hot enough to melt lead and ensure that liquid water cannot exist...
...sunburn," jokes Brack, who dutifully applies SPF 39 sun block every hour to little avail. "My warmest situation so far was taking pictures in the exhaust of an F-15 jet under the midday sun. It was so hot, the rubber grips around my lenses started to melt off." The heat and dust have already claimed one of Brack's cameras, and he is well into every piece of backup equipment he brought with...
...never occurred to me to make chocolate truffles at home, but the process looks easy in Willan's book. You whip up a genache by pouring a boiled combination of butter and cream over chopped chocolate. Chill that and then roll into little balls and chill some more. Melt some more chocolate, dip the genache balls in the warm chocolate and roll them in powdered cocoa...
...Even rocks melt if you apply enough heat. Harvard sometimes seems to be a boulder," Bourke said...
...anytime soon. He may last long enough to prove that he is the sheriff, perhaps even the tiger. But whatever happens to Gorbachev or to his troubled country, there is one thing that neither today's Kremlinologists nor future historians can deny: it was he who made the ice melt...