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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philadelphia has been the ultimate goal for the Radcliffe crew. It is the site of this year's national women's rowing championships. And for the 14 'Cliffe rowers, this has been the impetus for all the trials and achievements of the past ten months...
...planning any major modifications. But they are negotiating with Cambridge officials about adding a retail-apartment complex that would generate more revenue for the city, and possibly increasing parking space. (An earlier plan for an extensive underground garage has had to be abandoned because the 12-acre site, near the Charles River, has proved too soggy for the purpose.) As an opponent of the library puts it: "Being good Massachusetts residents, I'm sure the Kennedys do not want people lying down before the bulldozers as if this were some urban renewal project...
Cambridge is the site of the convention because it holds many of the Portuguese residing in the United States, Viveiros said...
Fierce Heat. The worst was still to come. Without the shield, temperatures inside the Orbital Workshop-site of the crew quarters-soared dramatically, climbing to 130° F. and higher. The fierce heat endangered the foodstores, especially the new gravy-rich dishes of which NASA is so proud. It may well have fogged sensitive film and ruined medical supplies. There was also danger that the extreme heat would begin to decompose the Styrofoam insulation in the spacecraft's walls, producing potentially lethal gases inside the workshop. Finally, as the temperature of the unprotected aluminum "bald spot" on Skylab...
Rand had previously employed magnetism in the operating room. In 1966, he injected microscopic iron spheres into blood vessels of patients who had suffered aneurysms, or "blowouts" in blood vessels in the brain. He used the magnet to hold the filings in place at the site of the rupture until new tissue grew over them to close the hole...