Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roman times, not only links many of Egypt's most illustrious pharaohs, but casts new light on the little-known goddess they honored. "This site is a gold mine," says James Manning of the Brooklyn Museum. "It could give us an entirely new view of a large portion of ancient Egypt and its religion...
...haul it to Southern California. Hult, who says he could do the job for a mere $30 million, calculates that he would lose only 5% of the berg's mass during the year-long trip. He would make up some of his immense costs by bottling a portion of the iceberg water in small flasks and then selling them as souvenirs for tourists. Says he: "The American public would really go for this." Especially residents of Los Angeles, who could derive about 75 billion liters (20 billion gal.) of water, or 10% of their annual consumption, from...
...north pole, showing a concentric pattern of striations in the ice cap; a color snapshot showing newly formed frost on the ground near the feet of the dust-covered Viking 2 lander; and a photo proving that something-wind, a tremor, a frost heave-has caused a portion of the Martian surface to slump since it was photographed last October. The most spectacular shot in the current album is a "down the hole" look into the summit caldera, or crater, of Mars' Olympus Mons, a volcano that dwarfs the earth's mightiest peak, Mount Everest. Olympus Mons measures...
...moguls over scripts and salaries, always standing by an almost quixotic sense of honor in an epoch sorely lacking men of principle. Although his career suffered accordingly, the legend that lingers only profits from this irrepressible streak. But in the film this trait is largely neglected until the concluding portion, when Russell decides to end the film with a famous boxing exhibition between a tubercular Valentino and a reporter from a New York paper that had published a scathing criticism of the film idol. To wind up the movie with this inherently ludicrous vignette raises some doubts as to Russell...
Quality As the Army has been insisting all along, it is signing up higher-caliber men than those who were dragged into uniform by the draft. Since conscription ended, the portion of enlistees in the top three of four mental categories used for classifying eligible people has increased from 76% to 93%. The Army's strategy is to continue raising standards so that the lowest mental category can eventually be eliminated. Since the end of the draft, the Army has already reduced the proportion of the bottom-category enlistees to 11% from...