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Witnesses said at least three cars and a tractor-trailer tumbled into the rain-swollen Schoharie Creek below the highway, part of Interstate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bridge Death Toll Up to Three | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

...lights lost by a scant tenth-of-a-second to the University of Pennsylvania on the rain-swollen Schuylkill River. Cornell finished third...

Author: By Ken Segel, | Title: Men's Crew Splits | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...Centaur rockets have been launching U.S. satellites into orbit for the past 25 years, but last week the sturdy workhorse suffered a rare failure. Less than a minute after lift-off from Pad 36B at Cape Canaveral in threatening weather, a $78 million, 137-ft. rocket disappeared into rain- swollen thunderheads and went out of control. A range safety officer hit the destruct button, and the rocket exploded along with its payload, an $83 million communications satellite. For NASA, struggling to recover from the loss of the Challenger shuttle 14 months ago, the aborted flight broke a string of seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: A Bolt In the Blue | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...structure but in its details: Hungarian-born Physicist Leo Szilard stepping off a London curb in 1933 and being struck by the shattering inspiration of sustained chain reaction; Cambridge's Ernest Rutherford angling for the secrets of the universe with string and red sealing wax; Pierre Curie's hands, swollen by prolonged exposure to radium; the flat feet that kept Albert Einstein out of the army; Nobel Prizewinner Enrico Fermi arriving for an appointment at the U.S. Navy Department and overhearing the desk officer tell his admiral, "There's a wop outside"; F.D.R.'s 13-word handwritten approval of atom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chain Reactions $ THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...outward that they will cool to about two-thirds of the current 6,000 degrees C surface temperature, and redden. The sun will have become a red giant, so large that it will engulf the planet Mercury, perhaps extending to encompass the orbit of the earth. Even if the swollen sun stretches no farther out than Mercury, however, the heat reaching earth will be from 500 to 1,000 times as great as it is today. Oceans will boil, and life will be incinerated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fate of the Sun | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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