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Electromagnets are also crucial to fusion energy, which depends on fusing atoms (the same process that powers the sun), rather than splitting them. Key to one promising fusion process, which is under development in several countries, is a "bottle" composed not of any material substance but of powerful magnetic fields, generated at great expense by conventional electromagnets. Such fields are the only envelopes that can contain and squeeze atoms together at the hundred-million-degree temperature required to initiate fusion. But superconducting magnets, especially warm-temperature ones, could produce more intense fields at less expense and thus could "help make...
When Reagan and Nakasone first met on the sun-drenched White House South Lawn, the President again used the double-edged sword. Turning to television cameras that were carrying the ceremonies live back to Japan, he spoke of the importance of U.S.-Japanese relations and told of the "great care" that has been taken over four decades "to mold and create this gem of a relationship." Yet he called the gaping trade imbalance between the two countries "unsustainable" and warned that "tangible actions must be taken by us both...
...this winter on the logging roads around his big hillside house, but the maple-syrup season was no damned good at all, and then outrageous rains flooded nearby roads so that Keene and Concord were just about unreachable. Blackfly season is not more than 15 minutes away. Still, the sun is shining, just barely, and yes -- a sour grin -- even the music business is beginning to show signs of life...
...harsh afternoon sun was setting as the cortege made its way up the steep incline. Some of the men, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra among them, rotated as pallbearers. At the hilltop cemetery overlooking Matagalpa, a city 75 miles northeast of Managua, the crowd of more than 1,000 paid their final respects to Benjamin Linder, 27, an engineer from Oregon who died last week of shrapnel wounds suffered during a contra attack. He was the first American volunteer working on behalf of the Sandinistas to die in Nicaragua's five-year-old civil war. Linder's parents...
Fifteen years ago, scientists began noticing that the earth's protective ozone layer was being depleted by a group of chemicals known as chlorofluorocarbons. They warned that deterioration of the ozone, which blocks the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays, could lead to an increase in skin cancer and disastrous climatic changes, including an overall warming of the earth's atmosphere...