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...lightning speed, igniting 70-80 fires on the earth every second--and that is the capability of just one station. The Reagan Administration has suggested deploying 160 such stations, leading one of the researchers to conclude that, "all of the major cities of either superpower could be targeted for thermal attack by intense lasers with the potential for creating mass fires in all of these urban areas in a matter of hours...
...building and an invocation of Jennie's sacred memory. "I think she'd be delighted today," said William Meyer, the confident, youthful president of Servico. He went on to describe the changes planned for the next year: the gourmet dining room, the spa, the whirlpool, the thermal wrap, the two-bedroom condos that would go for $125,000 each, the 8,000-sq.-ft. "action lounge" targeted to young people...
...NASA engineering panel noted that the O rings had failed in a ground test and called them "inadequate" for reliability and "marginal" in their safety. On Feb. 28, 1984, Miller warned his bosses that the putty used in the seal might not "provide a thermal barrier." If so, he said, this would "lead to burning both O rings and subsequent catastrophic failure...
...including 60 doctors and 30 search dogs. West Germany dispatched 56 members of a disaster-relief unit, along with five paramedics and twelve search dogs, heavy salvage gear, a medical emergency center, a mobile kitchen and medical supplies. From Britain came four London firemen, who brought with them nine thermal cameras, which use infrared sensors to detect the body heat of buried survivors...
...Yankee's entrees run the full thermal spectrum, from fuming chicken-sausage jamalaya to mellow blackened redfish, originally a Prudhomme creation. The jambalaya, a variant of Spanish paella, consists mostly of seasoned orzo (overweight rice); it clears the sinuses thoroughly. The redfish, cooked quickly in a searing-hot pan, could be addictive...