Word: tails
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...hydrogen atoms. Scientists hope that when the beams simultaneously hit the pellet, which is smaller than a grain of sand, the temperature of the pellet's outer surface will be raised to 100 million degrees, causing it to vaporize explosively. Just as a rocket is pushed forward by its tail exhaust, the vaporizing surface would exert a force inward, compressing the pellet to a density 20 times that of lead and forcing the nuclei to fuse. In the fusion power plant of the future, Livermore scientists say, larger pellets will be blasted, one after another, producing successive bursts of energy...
Incidently, AT&T would be as happy with non-thinking students as with the tail Thinker pictured in its ad: customers who fail to indicate an alternate choice for long distance carrier will automatically remain with AT&T, and they won't even get T-shirts...
...spoken and secretive investor from Omaha. Buffett, who owns 41% of Berkshire Hathaway, a diversified investment firm, is an old hand at deals involving communications companies, but he acknowledges his friend's expertise too. As he told TIME last week, "Murph needs an adviser like Carl Lewis needs a tail wind." Berkshire Hathaway currently owns 13% of < the Washington Post Co., 8% of Affiliated Publications, whose flagship property is the Boston Globe, and 4% of Time Inc. Buffett agreed to buy 3 million shares, or 18%, of Capital Cities/ABC, as the new company is likely to be called. His cost...
This reputation rests, for Americans, almost wholly on one painting. It was no slight thing to have painted The Sleeping Gypsy, by now perhaps the most famous dream image in Western art. The silhouette of a sniffing lion, with one unwinking yellow eye and a tail stiffly outstretched, its tip erect as though charged with static electricity, quivering like Rousseau's own paintbrush; the swollen, white Melies moon; the black nomad like a toppled statue, her feet with their pink toenails gravely sticking up; the djellaba, with its rippling stripes of coral, Naples yellow, cerulean; and the lute, like...
...expletives-deleted confrontation brought to the surface a long-standing feud. Downey, 36, received a 1-Y medical draft deferral during the Viet Nam War because of a pierced eardrum. Dornan, 51, a former Air Force jet pilot, was in flight training at the tail end of the Korean conflict. "I was getting my Air Force wings when Downey was in kindergarten," says Dornan...