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...Smash. One thing is fairly certain: the "primary rays" are particles of some sort (coming from somewhere) that smack into the earth's atmosphere with enormous speed and energy. They hit and apparently crack up atmospheric atoms, scattering the fragments violently, like bullets smashing into a bag of marbles. The atomic debris cascades toward the earth, some of the pieces with enough energy to crack atoms on their own. Occasionally one of these "extensive showers" covers an area 1,000 meters wide. The total energy in a shower runs up to 10 18 (one billion billion) electron-volts...
...breakfast for a son and daughter and Bert Hadley, for whom she keeps house. Then she got into oilskins, rubber boots and sou'wester, rowed a mile and a half through the bay's ice floes to haul her lobster pots. She rowed to the collecting smack to sell her catch, then headed home again. There she milked the cow, fed it and the horse, did the barn chores, and before cooking lunch got in a few licks at a fence she was fixing. In the May-to-October fishing season, that is daily routine for Annie Lyons...
...Communications would be disrupted ... Airplanes would fly smack into mountains and towers-and the surviving pilots would swear they were properly lined up for landing...
Last week The Alchemist was given a lively airing-as the first bill in the New York City Center's spring theater program. Set smack in Jonson's lusty London, the play tells of three high-flying cheats, one of whom professes to be an alchemist, and of the brisk trade they drive. Dupes and sharpers alike are finally discomfited; but first the alchemist is sought out by every kind and condition of hopeful, from a modest lawyer's clerk who has an itch to gamble to the City knight, Sir Epicure Mammon, with his sumptuous...
...comprise the graduating class at the far-flung University of California. Their complaint is that their graduation date has been moved from June 19 to June 12, and the latter date happens to be right smack in the middle of their final exam period...