Word: shells
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...about one in five Bay Area homes was covered by earthquake insurance, and generally for only 85% to 90% of its value. (Earthquake insurance can cost as much as $800 a year for a $200,000 house.) Jack Byrne, chairman of Fireman's Fund, figures that insurers will eventually shell out $2.5 billion to repair earthquake damage. They stand to recover perhaps two-thirds of that from international reinsurers -- Lloyd's of London is the biggest -- which protect insurers against catastrophic losses. Still, the earthquake claims, coming less than a month after the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo, could...
...relics of Uganda's bloody past are everywhere. Tanks rust along the roads, and shell holes pockmark buildings. In the villages north of Kampala, the capital, big plastic bags bulge with bright white human skulls, femurs and tibias, the grisly remains of some of the estimated 1 million victims of two decades of government atrocity, tribal conflict and civil war. Now the nearly four-year-old regime of President Yoweri Museveni is talking about preserving these bones, perhaps in a museum, as a memorial to a time that everyone in Uganda hopes is over...
...that maxim. The Business School, blessed with an immensely rich pool of alumni and facilities to match, opened what many $18 million gym. It seems you have to have a golden parachute just to enter the place, though. No undergraduates are allowed, and even B-School students must shell out big bucks just to use some of the facilities. The certification required to use the fitness equipment area costs $50, the towel service $30 and a private locker for a year...
NASA has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure the RTGs are safe. Each of the 144 plutonium pellets in the generators, designed by General Electric, is surrounded by an iridium shell. Coated pellets are then encased by two graphite shells and finally by an aluminum shroud. The U.S. Department of Energy has spent $50 million testing the generators. In one experiment, engineers fired shrapnel traveling 700 ft. per sec. at the iridium casings. None was pierced. In another test, scientists tacked an RTG to a solid rocket booster and blew it up. No damaged graphite shells were detected...
...industry, as each side seeks to pass responsibility for meeting the standards on to the other. "The carmakers want to say 'reformulate the gasoline,' " says William Randol, an oil-industry analyst for First Boston. "But who will make the investment to do this?" He noted that Shell Oil has estimated that it would cost billions of dollars to develop new clean-burning gasolines...