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...them for a few minutes of glory. For Kruse the urge is visceral, planted in him for good when, at age seven or eight, he hand-launched a 5 cents glider on ; the sun-drenched Kansas prairie. The craft rose a few feet, then miraculously was snatched by a thermal and carried away. Kruse leaped on his bicycle and rode desperately after it -- one mile, two miles, five miles. He came home stunned. "How'd it go?" his dad asked. "It flew five miles," said young Kruse. "That's crazy," the father declared. "Where'd you launch it, where...
...processing units. The machines may be connected, by cable or satellite, to hundreds of remote terminals that can transform raw numerical output into stunning 3-D graphics. They often need industrial-size refrigeration units to keep the rush of electronic signals within them from melting down their circuitry. The thermal output of the University of Minnesota's supercomputers is used to heat a garage...
...military requirements. Testing is not required to develop new versions of weapons differing only in terms of dimensions, weight or other such parameters from those previously tested. Testing is currently not necessary to verify the reliability of older, stockpiled weapons or to verify their ability to withstand the mechanical, thermal and radiation effects they may have been subjected to in combat...
...week. Chavez plans to stay in Mexico City, but he knows that doing so is a risk to his family's health. Pollution is so bad in Mexico City (pop. 18 million) that birds regularly drop dead from the soot-filled sky. Last year the city endured several thermal inversions in which dense, low-lying clouds of smog literally forced residents of the capital to choke on the waste produced by the city's 3 million cars and 100,000 factories. Warns Economist Rogelio Ramirez de la O: "If there is a thermal inversion in which a whole...
...slipping into briefcases and little market niches , in the U.S. The battery-powered machines, when moved slowly down a newspaper column or across a passage in a book, can instantly produce a copy on a strip of paper about 1 3/4-in. to 3 1/4-in. wide. They use miniaturized thermal technology to transfer images onto the special heat-sensitive paper, which costs about $2 for a 33-ft. roll...