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...encompass the inner solar system almost all the way out to the orbit of Jupiter. On a clear night last March, Astronomers Roger Lynds, Jack Harvey and Peter Worden took some 40 photographs of Betelgeuse, exposing each of the plates to the star's light for less than one-hundredth of a second...
...Strang's creative energies are lodged part and parcel with his strange psychosis, and its exorcism leaves him an empty shell, incapable of anything one-hundredth as passionate as before. This is the play's point, and it's not a new one and this isn't its most profound presentation. That madness may be better than sanity--who are we, who have never known true madness, to judge--goes back as far as you want to take it into Western thought. What Equus does is make it into good theater. Shaffer's play is propaganda for the Dionysiac element...
Shaky Ground. The Russians, led by Physicist Georgy N. Flerov, last June claimed a similar achievement using another technique: firing nuclei of chromium into lead. That produced a slightly different isotope of element 106 with an even shorter half-life of less than one-hundredth of a second. The Berkeley group was highly skeptical. Said Ghiorso: "The proof they presented is marginal. I think they are on shaky ground...
...recognized. And in the recent construction of a reactor in Gravel Neck, Virginia, the welding superintendent admitted that as many as 5000 welds in vital parts of the structure could be defective. A cooling water failure might precipitate a "runaway" which could cause a high-power steam explosion within one-hundredth of a second. Vernon's emergency cooling system takes from three to ten seconds to become effectively operational...
...m.p.h. Coast Guard launch for the Potomac cruise to Mount Vernon. At the Smithsonian, she was intrigued by the astronaut space suits, and asked U.S. Moonman Neil Armstrong: "Is there a danger of a rip?" Replied the relaxed Armstrong: "The difference between eternity and life is about one one-hundredth of an inch of rubber...