Word: sec
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Little Boy, which had been dropped from the Enola Gay at 8:15:30, exploded 43 sec. later, at 1,900 ft. above Hiroshima, creating a blinding bluish-white flash and, for a fraction of a second, unearthly heat. Temperatures near the hypocenter, the ground point immediately below the explosion, surged to figures ranging from 5400 degrees F to 7200 degrees F; within a mile of the hypocenter, the surfaces of objects instantly rose to more than 1000 degrees F. Those caught in the middle of this maelstrom were the lucky ones. They died instantly, vaporized into puffs of smoke...
...only $12,500 (all except Rothschild, who stayed in and after 18 months made a profit of more than $1 million on his $250,000 investment). By 1965 Vesco had incorporated his company, and by financial sleight of hand, he took his International Controls Corp. public without sec scrutiny. He bought controlling shares of a public company, merged it with ICC, and renamed the resulting company ICC. Presto: he was a publicly traded company. He had also accomplished his two other goals: he had his own firm, and he was a millionaire, at least on paper. He was just...
...fund run by playboy-salesman Bernard Cornfeld. Touting his expertise in setting up ICC (by then a conglomerate of several companies) Vesco came in with a $5 million bail-out and was hailed as IOS's savior. Very quickly, however, IOS funds were mysteriously misdirected. By the time the sec was ready to indict Vesco, the financier was gone, having taken his loot and his family, his yacht and his planes, to Costa Rica...
...they confirm that the theorists had it exactly right. The photos don't show the stars themselves, which are shrouded behind dense clouds of cosmic dust. But they do show enormous jets of gas blasting out of the young suns at speeds of up to 300 miles per sec. and with enough force to propel them trillions of miles into deep space. One of the pictures is a surprisingly clear portrait of a fast-spinning, disk-shaped cloud of cosmic debris that may serve as the raw material for a solar system in eons to come. Says astronomer Chris Burrows...
...most of Game 1 on Wednesday, Shaq fought Hakeem to a standoff, but with just 0.3 sec. left in the first overtime, Olajuwon tipped in a shot to give himself 31 points and the Rockets a 120-118 win. In Friday's Game 2, the 32-year-old center outplayed his larger, younger counterpart for most of the game, which the Rockets took, 117-106. Olajuwon had 22 points in the first half alone, as Houston built an insurmountable lead, and he finished the night with 34 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks...