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...light on the target, while the other drops its bombs in the general direction of the object. Responding to infra-red sensors mounted in their noses, the bombs ride the beam's reflections in a long glide pattern to the target. Sometimes they strike within a 5-ft. radius of the bull...
Indies in August of 1883. The shock wave cracked walls 100 miles away and traveled three times round the world. Debris suspended in the air turned day into night over a radius of 130 miles. Floating pumice up to 13 feet blanketed...
...molten hail produced by Santorini's deafening eruption must have rendered all lands within a 100-mile radius (including central Crete) uninhabitable. Then came the incursion of the sea into the immense lava boil that had been Santorini-probably causing water to recede temporarily from shores around the Mediterranean. As the immense volume of water that had converged on Santorini rushed outward again in a giant wave, it smashed harbors and flooded large districts around the Mediterranean basin. The great sea empire of Minoan Crete simply vanished in the wake of Santorini's destruction...
Even in 1851, Chicago was too toddling for the stern, teetotaling Methodists who founded Northwestern University. So they located their new school to the north, and then secured its purity by forbidding the sale of liquor within a four-mile radius of the campus. Evanston, the town that grew up around the university, thus became so dry that the Woman's Christian Temperance Union felt safe enough to make Evanston its national headquarters...
...Ferrous metals are removed by magnets. The remaining refuse is aerated in a special "digester," which decomposes it while also killing bacteria and smells. The addition of phosphates, nitrates and potash to the mix produces a high-yield fertilizer, which is being sold commercially within a 200-mile radius of the city. Of course, the company's capacity is too small to make more than a dent in New York's huge mound of garbage. And if all the trash in the city were treated this way, it would produce more fertilizer than the area really needs...