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...Brazilian federal police have conducted dozens of raids across the country aimed at shrinking a rapidly growing black market in U.S. currency. The widespread illegal activity seemed to indicate rising fears among the citizenry that President Jose Sarney's well-publicized anti-inflation campaign might be running out of steam...
World economic performance would be much more sprightly were it not for the sluggishness of the U.S. During 1983 and 1984, the U.S. was a powerful locomotive for global growth, but last year the engine began to run out of steam. At the moment, American industry is operating at only 79% of its capacity, the lowest level since...
...ships if nuclear power plants could be squeezed into submarines' tiny hulls. Rickover's work eventually spawned not only the first nuclear-powered sub, the Nautilus, launched in January 1955, but the first civilian nuclear power reactor, at Shippingport, Pa. Today more than 150 of 554 U.S. naval vessels steam under nuclear power; American submarines can stay submerged for months and traverse the waters beneath the polar ice caps...
...atoms are packed closely together, however, as they are in power-plant fuel rods, the neutrons emitted by the splitting nuclei break up other nearby nuclei. Each shattered nucleus contributes more neutrons and heat to what has now become a chain reaction, and the heat is used to produce steam that drives the electrical generators...
...museum that is proud to display Al Capone's favorite chair.) The next day you'll tool eastward to Dollywood, "the friendliest town in the Smokies," where you can roast pigs over an open hearth, munch on buffalo- burgers and take a mountain trek on a 90-ton steam train. If you're in luck, Dolly will be there...