Word: raying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buildings) will remain aloft up to 100 days. That's enough time to look for such elusive phenomena as planets in other solar systems, black holes and remnants of the Big Bang. Says astrophysicist Josh Grindlay, leader of a Harvard-Smithsonian group that uses balloons to map distant X-ray sources: "For some science, they're going to give the shuttle or space station a run for the money...
...withstand pressures created by stratospheric solar heating and retain enough helium to circle the globe five to 10 times. The first of NASA's smaller trial balloons is to be launched in March 1999, to be followed a year later by a demonstration flight carrying a Washington University cosmic-ray detector. Over the horizon Tueller sees more astronomy and astrophysics experiments as well as Earth monitoring, such as observing the ozone hole, and perhaps even semipermanent balloons to replace some of the cellular-phone towers dotting the landscape. Assuming, of course, there's any money left over from the space...
...third parties from the other side of the globe is breathtakingly mischievous. Chilean President Eduardo Frei is struggling manfully to maintain domestic tranquillity in the country, to keep a restive army in its barracks and to prevent blood from flowing once more in the streets of Santiago. JOHN RAY Fontenay-Tresigny, France...
That long delay between the time you have an X ray taken and the time you get the results is getting shorter, thanks to digital radiography systems from Canon, which won FDA approval last week, and General Electric, which got the nod last month. Doctors can view digital images captured by silicon sensors just three seconds after they are taken, as opposed to waits as long as 30 min. with traditional X rays...
While reading Billy Dead, the reader is trapped with Ray's skewed vision of the world and, what is worse, his sometimes hideously rambling narrative. To pull a novel off with a hero or heroine essentially isolated from society, the protagonist has to be vivid and interesting, which is why this novel suffers by any comparison to Bastard out of Carolina or any other tale of an abusive childhood. While Ruth Anne Boatwright remains in the reader's memory, Ray Johnson is easily forgotten, with only the horrible tales of abuse to vaguely haunt the readers, tales of suffering with...