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...neutron bomb that is slated for production packs a one-kiloton punch. By contrast, most of the tactical nukes that are stockpiled in Europe come in sizes often, 20 and 50 kilotons. If a standard ten-kiloton warhead were detonated, it would level nearly every building within a radius of over a mile. A neutron bomb exploded 130 yds. in the air would destroy all structures within only a 140-yd. radius. It would instantly kill anyone within a half-mile radius, and for people within a one-mile range would cause delayed deaths up to a month after...
...growth of pottery among young people, especially in the U.S. He tells of one of his best students, Warren MacKenzie, for almost 25 years head of the ceramics department at the University of Minnesota, who wrote to him about the hundreds of young potters working within a 100-mile radius of the campus. "I said to myself, 'My goodness, the seed has fallen on good earth in my own lifetime-not me alone, but all of us together wanting good things...
...notice was posted on the wall outside offices of the U.S. Geological Survey on Dec. 30, 1976. Issued by six USGS scientists, it predicted that an earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale would occur within a 15 kilometer (9.3 mile) radius of a ranch near Hollister, Calif., during January 1977. On Jan. 6, a quake measuring 3.2 shook the ground about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from Hollister. This successful, unpublicized prediction shows that scientists are moving closer to their goal of reliable earthquake forecasts (TIME cover, Sept. 1, 1975). But predicting how people will react to public forecasts...
...Massachusetts state law requires policeman and firefighters to live within a ten miles radius of the municipality they work in. Sgt. Harold Murphy, secretary of the Cambridge Police Association, said that it is not clear whether the radius is drawn from the city hall or the city limits...
Under Cambridge law, civil service employees are required to live in Cambridge, police officers must live within a ten mile radius of the city, and professional employees have no residency requirement to meet at all. A professional police commissioner would fall under all three categories...