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...Good!" the student exclaimed as he thrust his blue book into the anonymous pile on the table and bounded away before anyone could identify him. Truly a case of success snatched from the jaw of failure...
...Georgia May, a schoolteacher at Warwick's Gorton Junior High School. On paper, operating the sub seems, well, child's play. Merely a matter of opening a few valves to let water into the ballast tanks until the S 250 has achieved "neutral buoyancy," then directing the thrust of two exterior electrical pod engines by manipulating two handles inside the hull, placed below and forward of the seated driver like the handle bars of a racing bike...
...engine. The blades look like warped boomerangs. They are more efficient for subsonic aircraft than the fanjet engines planned for the 1980s; on flights of up to 1,500 miles, the prop fan would be 40% more fuel economical, since a propeller is more efficient than jet thrust during climb-outs and letdowns. Even so, the boomerang has a problem: excessive noise. Furthermore, how can airlines lure passengers back to a prop after they have flown...
...June 8 cover excessive and ordered it scrapped, but not before 1.3 million copies had been printed; the substitute was not much different: two naked dancers on a nightclub stage in St. Pauli, Hamburg's red-light district. Nonetheless, he protests that Stern (meaning Star) has been unfairly thrust into the company of the girlie press. He notes that the magazine ran nearly naked women on its cover only five times...
...were sighted somewhere on the far side of Mars, tooling for the World Series with all engines on full; now it looks like they might have been sold some bad liquid hydrogen by the shady character who runs the NASA-surplus parts shop down at Cape Canaveral. The thrust just isn't there. The Bosox have now lost seven of their last eight games, and their once-astronomical division lead has shrunk to a mere five-and-a-half games over the streaking Brewers, and a rapidly diminishing eight over the Lemon-fresh Yankees. The Guinness Book of World Records...