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...must have doubled the amount of nitrogen oxides in the stratosphere at an altitude of about 25 miles over the polar regions, and thus depleted the ozone over these areas by an amount he calculated at 20%. There was a way of checking his theory. A Nimbus satellite, in orbit at the time, had been measuring the amount of ultraviolet light reflected from the earth's atmosphere. Because ozone absorbs ultraviolet, any decrease in ozone would result in an increase in the ultraviolet "seen" by the satellite. Sure enough, after months of analyzing data from the Nimbus, two NASA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ozone Alert | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...Orbit. The real danger to Yugoslavia's future sovereignty, in Tito's view, looms not from within but from without. Belgrade shares with Washing ton and other Western governments a fear that the Kremlin will move to regain influence over Yugoslavia, which spun dramatically out of the Soviet or bit in 1948 when Tito rebelled against Stalin's dictates. This might well involve subversion of the post-Tito government by Russia's agents and even a Soviet army invasion of Yugoslavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Cracking Down on Cominformists | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...Contract. Kennedy broke off with her in 1962, and his close associates soon forgot about her; after all, she was only one of many pretty women who drifted into the President's orbit (see following story). Recently, however, details of the affair became known publicly, and last week Judith Campbell, now Mrs. Daniel Exner, 41, and something of a look-alike for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, ended her discreet silence. At a press conference in San Diego, she admitted that the President had once shared her affections with two mobsters. But she declined comment when bluntly asked whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: J.F.K. and the Mobsters' Moll | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...today's businessmen take the Eastern Airlines shuttle between Washington and New York. U.S. airlines may never offer trips into space, but NASA is well on the way toward achieving regular space flight, pointing toward the day when craft will shuttle men and materials between earth and orbiting space stations. The agency is assembling the first reusable spaceship, and has begun to train astronauts to fly the new space shuttle, which will be ready to go into orbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Commuting in Space | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...boosters and a 154-ft. tank of liquid propellant, the ship will lift off from Cape Canaveral. After separation, the solid fuel boosters will be parachuted back into the ocean, to be picked up and reused. The liquid-propellant tank, jettisoned after sending the shuttle into orbit, will not be reused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Commuting in Space | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

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