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...people who have been here all their lives have no problem with Seabrook," said one 71-year-old woman as she walked her dog just a mile away from the plant. "It doesn't bother us any more in the least...
...space shuttle to peer underneath the deserts of Egypt and locate ancient riverbeds. In addition, satellites using optical sensing systems were able to record reflected near-infrared light that is invisible to the human eye. Scientists combined the data to produce digital images of 160-km-long (100-mile) tracts; these pictures were then manipulated by computers to bring out subtle details. Roads and rivers that were barely visible to explorers on the ground appeared in images captured from hundreds of kilometers up in space...
...took up curling. The heart-pounding Alpine sport -- to be introduced at the Games this year as a demonstration event -- is skiing's equivalent of drag racing: no turns, no brakes. Gleaming in aerodynamic suits and Darth Vader-like helmets, the skiers rocket down a steep, hard-packed 1.08-mile course at 120 m.p.h. or more...
...wings are too large for much flapping, it soars skyward by jumping from its mountaintop nest into an updraft. On the ground, the birds need a spiraling thermal air current to take off. Says the Los Angeles Zoo's Michael Wallace: "I've seen Andean condors walk half a mile for a launch point...
FAEs are bombs that are filled with gasoline. Near the end of their flight, they let out a fine mist of gas behind them, for, say, a mile. Then, they blow and set all that mist on fire. The explosive effect is the equivalent of a small nuclear weapon, without the fallout, and the bombs suck all the nearby oxygen...