Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salt Lake City wreck, most of the 43 victims were burned to death. Thus, the CAB recommended that the 727's fuel lines, which run through the craft's belly to the three rear-mounted engines, be relocated to withstand the shock of a crash landing. In, both cases, CAB investigators found evidence that synthetic cabin material such as soundproofing, when exposed to fire and soaked by jet kerosene fuel or hydraulic fluid, may exude deadly gases; survivors of the Salt Lake City crash reported that fumes "seared and burned" their lungs. As a result, the CAB called...
...education is clear enough, but the how is not. Even after parents give the go-ahead, many schools submerge the realities of sex in the cell-and-amoeba terms of biology classes, or settle for the shock effect of horror movies about syphilis. Los Angeles claims to have extensive sex instruction wrapped into its junior high and eleventh-grade health education courses; nonetheless, a Hamilton High junior complains that "we never get down to the point but go all around it." The value of the course really depends upon the teacher, says Bonnie Hersh, a Venice High junior...
...another up at a glance, measuring the assessment against every subsequent pause and gesture. Through ever-changing shades of perfidy on both sides of the Wall, the drama inches toward its bitter climax, made more agonizing by Ritt's detachment. He simply records an event and lets the shock wave follow...
...which means that the slippery stuff has another distinctive characteristic: it is thixotropic-a sudden shock can transform it from a solid to a liquid...
...electrodes to reorient the clay particles. Scientists are also conducting laboratory experiments that could some day put Anchorage on more solid ground. By pumping enough calcium salts into the clay to bind its particles together by electrolytic action, they hope to make the clay more viscous, resistant to shock and no longer thixotropic...