Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must make judgments about what is mostimportant and allot space accordingly.Descriptions of jobs performed and accomplishmentsmust be brief and listing of activities selective.If you can't fit your resume on one page, put allof the most important information on the firstpage. Certain information that is included inlonger resumes, such as a list of publications ora list of references, may be presented separatelyas attachments if you decide that they areimportant to your application. Other attachmentsmay include an annotated transcript, clippings,writing sample, portfolio, and letters ofrecommendation...
NASA used similar generators on 22 space missions, but no one paid much attention until the Challenger tragedy dramatized the risks of space launches. The space agency admits that there have been three accidents involving RTG- powered vehicles. The most significant was in 1964, when a satellite launched by the Air Force burned up over the Pacific, tripling the amount of radioactive plutonium 238 in the environment. It is not clear what health effects that might have had. The generators were then redesigned, and in two subsequent accidents in which spacecraft broke apart, no radioactivity is known to have escaped...
...Space officials calculate that the chances of plutonium being released in an aborted mission are no greater than 1 in 1,428. Declares Dudley McConnell, nuclear safety manager for NASA: "You have a thousand times greater chance of dying on the ground from debris falling from an airplane crash than you do from the Galileo mission." Critics, though, remain unconvinced by such assurances. For them, the only real comfort will come when Galileo is gone from earth...
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...biggest emergency rooms in New York City, is overwhelmed to the point that care for other patients is threatened. Says Bellevue's Dr. Lewis Goldfrank: "There is going to be hospital gridlock by 1990, because there's not enough long-term, short-term or emergency-care space for AIDS patients. I think they're eventually going to fill every hospital bed in the big cities...