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...caused the bow to drop, pitching the 14,000-ton boat into a steep dive with steam turbines still delivering power to its twin screws. In seconds, the sub would have pounded into the seabed some 350 ft. beneath the storm-driven surface of the Barents Sea with a shock that would have hurled survivors against equipment and bulkheads. Finally, as the boat settled onto the ocean floor, openings along the keel would probably no longer have been able to draw in seawater needed to cool the reactors. Automatic systems would have "scrammed" the reactors, pushing control rods into...
When it happened,? it came as a shock. One minute I was drowsily watching the wife of the Vice President of the United States as she introduced him to accept the nomination of his party to become President of the United States...
...American politics is going to die of sugar shock...
...arrived here to a scene orchestrated with all the panache only a seasoned show-biz operation like his White House could muster. They found a place in the heartland populated by blue-collar "working families" - this town of 23,000 next to Lake Erie is home to Monroe shock absorbers and a Ford parts plant - with a picturesque town square. The backdrop was a City Hall that could have been shipped in from Central Properties (with a church off the right), and organizers rounded up some 10,000 people who sweated, and in some cases fainted, in the steamy midwestern...
Hydroxy acids, esters, shock proteins--pretty soon we're all going to need Ph.D.s to shop at the cosmetics counter. You'll do fine as long as you start with a product that contains a good moisturizer, for example glycerin and water. Next decide how many extras you really need. "I was just looking at a new [product], and it had 55 different ingredients," says Dr. Sheldon Pinnell, a dermatologist at the Duke University Medical Center who also consults for the company Skinceuticals. "How much of any one ingredient can it have...