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...Some 35 per cent of meteorites, including the Lost City specimen, are classified as bronzite chondrites-an iron-rich type that contains glassy beads. "This is a very common, garden variety of meteorite," a Smithsonian spokesman said last week...
...landlord spills his "vodka breath" all over her face, a wealthy Arab introduces her to Osteopath Stephen Ward, he introduces her to high society. In the second installment, she recalls a night with Soviet Spy Eugene Ivanov: "Then I threw all reserve to the winds. He was my perfect specimen of a man, a huggy-bear of a man, and he wanted...
...that calculated the age of the lunar material. He used potassium-argon dating, a method based on the rate at which radioactive potassium decays into argon (it takes 1.3 billion years for half the potassium to decay); as time passes, the ratio between the potassium and argon in a specimen changes at a known rate, thus revealing the approximate age of the sample. If there is any error at all, Schaeffer explains, he has underestimated the age of the rocks, because some argon may have been lost...
...search for drugs from the sea, from five to seven years may well elapse from the underwater snipping of a sponge specimen to the marketing of an antibiotic. But the seafaring scientists are confident that eventually the seas will yield a whole new pharmacopoeia of valuable drugs...
...outset: "Sister Lyda's ass is draggin." Indeed, she bestirs herself only for the strategic seduction of Clint Walker, who has no trouble at all playing an oafish, one-dimensional Ranger. Despite The Great Bank Robbery's pretentious effort, the genuinely amusing western remains an elusive specimen...