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Even a hero in his one-thousandth autumn Occasionally must still muster his courage...
...more practical level, Yokoi is confused by the decline in the value of the yen; his previous monthly army pay, 20 yen, is one two-thousandth of the pay for the same rank today. "Before the war," he laments, "I could have a perfectly satisfying evening out on a mere 10-yen note. Now you might spend 10,000 yen and the geisha will still say no." Yokoi is increasingly concerned about how he will earn those yen. "If I turn tailor again, as I was before the war, I would only go broke; I would be disqualified from...
...miniature planets occasionally pass millions of miles closer to the earth than either Mars or Venus. A spacecraft would have to use only a small amount of fuel to land on an asteroid and blast off again; a twelve-mile-wide asteroid, for example, would exert about one ten-thousandth of the earth's gravitational pull. Even if a ten-ton spacecraft turned over as it touched down, it could be easily righted...
...what constitutes safe exposure to radiation. Most scientists agree that there is a 50% chance that adults exposed to 450 rems* of radiation will die. Below about 50 rems, no visible damage has been measured. With little empirical evidence, the AEC has adopted 500 millirems (one millirem is one-thousandth of a rem) as the maximum radiation that the general public can be safely exposed to in one year. That is a very small amount. By comparison, the sun and other natural radiation sources expose the average individual to about 100 millirems each year. A single chest...
...MOST striking quality was an absolutely irresistible enthusiasm, apparent from the podium, over the airwaves and in the classroom, and possessed to a degree unsurpassed by anyone else. He might be hearing or conducting a piece for the thousandth time, but he had the gift of making us feel tat he was encountering it for the first time and that it was worth encountering...