Word: ton
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...cool and misty dawn, circa 78 million B.C. A lone triceratops interrupts a leisurely meal of ferns and twigs to glance around uneasily. Though the 11-ton creature is an intellectual lightweight, it senses the danger lurking in the surrounding forest. Suddenly, out from behind a tree lumbers one of the largest and fiercest carnivores that have ever lived: Tyrannosaurus rex. Although this beast is a mere adolescent, it is 15 ft. tall and armed with dagger-sharp teeth. The triceratops attempts a retreat, but the cold-blooded creature can only move slowly. It is too soon after sunrise...
...sense an ordinary star. It is a pulsar, the superdense ash left behind when a star exploded -- about a million years ago -- in the phenomenon known as a supernova. The blast blew off the star's outer layers and flung the 3,000 trillion trillion ton, Manhattan-size pulsar through space. The dead star generates an enormous magnetic field, which in turn sends out powerful radio pulses (hence the name pulsar...
...Kaaren Andrews, P'ton...
...loaded vessel's 12 tanks and setting it ablaze. Fortunately, most of the escaping oil quickly burned off or evaporated, calming fears of environmental damage to fishing waters and the coasts of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. By week's end emergency workers had secured the drifting 260,000-ton ship to a tug and had brought the blaze under partial control. It was the third major tanker accident in as many weeks...
After the radio messages were picked up in Belgrade, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees dispatched a truck convoy with an 80-ton relief shipment. But there was no certainty it would arrive, since earlier U.N. attempts to reach the town had been turned back by Serbian militiamen and mines on the snowy mountain roads. Officials said they were negotiating with the Serbs for permission to enter the area. Meanwhile, in a warm and comfortable hotel in Geneva, Bosnia's government tentatively agreed with Serb and Croat forces last Tuesday to establish a decentralized federation of 10 provinces. The complex...