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...mused, and that companion was somehow disrupting the solar system's asteroid belt. Trouble was, he conceded, he could not come up with a convincing orbit for the companion. Suddenly the Dutch-born Hut interrupted him with an alternative suggestion: Why not make the companion star travel through the thickest part of the comet-filled Oort cloud, rather than the asteroid belt? Muller immediately saw that the problems he had had with asteroids disappeared when he substituted comets as the culprits. As he recalls, "We wrote the first draft of our paper that...
...married Brita Mundal and for some reason took her name. "If he had not done so, Walter Vangsnes would be the Democratic presidential candidate," she declares. The fjord rivalry has risen along with Mondale's fortunes. "We are not interested in a fight over which place has the thickest Mondale roots," insists a Mundal resident. Even so, one elderly Vangsnes man offers this advice: "The next time Mondale crosses the Atlantic, he had better visit both sides of the fjord...
...exposes the internal landscape as never before. "Its development," says British Radiologist Brian Worthington of the University of Nottingham, "is as significant as the development of the X-ray machine one hundred years ago." Unlike CAT and other forms of X ray, NMR can "see" with clarity through the thickest of bones. Thus, without painful injections of contrast material, it can reveal damage from a stroke buried deep beneath the skull, find tiny spinal cord injuries, and make it possible to differentiate the gray and white matter of the brain. "For the soft tissue of the body," says Worthington...
American salesmen this month are blitzing television viewers with offers for everything from fish scalers to phonograph records. To order a product the buyer dials a toll-free 800 number on the screen. The offers come thickest in the slow after-Christmas period, when television advertising time is cheaper and consumers are too pooped to return to stores. The marketers ring up 40% of their annual sales in January...
...great, hollow fuselage. The outside of the Goose is a beautiful white, though it was aluminum colored when it flew. The ribbing inside looks like metal, but it is in fact neither metal nor spruce but laminated birch stuck together with glue. Everything is enormously outsize. At their thickest point the interior of the wings is 11 ft. high. A big man can walk out easily inside the wings to inspect the eight 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney engines, the largest radial engines ever built. For that matter, it is possible to crawl up inside the rudder structure...