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...body of a standard Capri, stripped the drive train, rear axle and motor and added a Pinto transmission, a Mustang rear end and a Perkins diesel engine. The key change was putting on a turbocharger. This reroutes hot exhaust gases (which would normally escape from the tail pipe) to a paddle-wheel turbine that compresses the engine's air-fuel mixture and gives the motor a sudden burst of power...
...Oceanographic Institution, cruised at depths of nearly two miles in the Pacific 200 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands, the vessel's bright strobe lights caught a curious sight: a cluster of vertical tubes growing in rocky crevices of this volcanically active region of the sea floor. Each pipe housed a pinkish worm with an elegant, red, feathery plume. Alvin's robot-like arms grappled up samples, and still more on a return visit earlier this year. Amazingly, some were giant worms, ranging up to 8½ ft. in length...
Despite Harvard's manifest riding and clearing superiority, hard luck (Gordie Nelson hit the post three times to give him a total of seven pipe shots in two games) and Eli perseverance combined to shut out the Crimson in the third period, while Yale crept back to a slight 10-7 deficit...
...defects in 26 reactors built by General Electric might cause the release of radiation in an accident similar to the one in Pennsylvania. The scientists have also produced a pamphlet, called the "Nugget File," that describes mishaps at nuclear plants, like the use of a basketball to plug a pipe leading from a radioactive tank...
...anyone who has dealt with the Harvard bureaucracy knows, many a brainstorm has gone out to sea in a tornado of red tape. Jackson also knew that if he didn't do his homework in advance, administrators would view his "boxing extravaganza" as nothing more than an unfeasible pipe-dream. After all, intramural boxing at Harvard had been banned in the early 1970s...