Word: polese
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THE PLANET MERCURY IS TRULY A HELLISH PLACE: IT is one-third as far from the sun as Earth, and its daytime temperatures can reach 430 degreesC (800 degreesF). The last thing scientists expected to find there was ice. But that is just what a new radar study of Mercury...
How is it possible? An analysis by UCLA scientists points out that while the poles are bathed in scorching sunlight, the light hits at such a shallow angle that the floors of some craters are permanently in shadow. With no atmosphere to move heat around, the temperature in these spots...
Young said a new date for the hunt is a "surprise." But Schauble said Crimson Key plans to hold the event in the winter or spring, when the poles and ropes are down.
Noon. As the gruel is doled out, cooks keep the six vats brewing, boiling dense brown river water to purge at least some of the bacteria, then stirring in the Unimix with wooden poles. One cook estimates that it will take 80 vats to feed everyone here this day. At...
Maybe engineers and designers should get Olympic medals. In the pole vault, heights jumped 30% with the switch from bamboo to fiber-glass and carbon- composite poles. Tracks have been resurfaced to give runners more bounce and speed, and pools have been designed to dampen wave action that buffets swimmers...