Word: transportations
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...there’s still no end of woe for dinosaurs. Even the Science Core, Science B-57, “Dinosaurs and Their Relatives,” couldn’t avoid another sudden calamity when a replicated tyrannosaurus rex skull ordered for lab was damaged in transport last week...
...certainly hasn't been a breeze for the airlines lately. But things could get a whole lot worse. Tomorrow (Tuesday, March 11th), the Air Transport Association, a powerful Washington lobbying arm of the major U.S. airlines, will release a grim report on the industry - and the prospects for an even darker future. TIME has obtained a copy of the 34-page report, "Airlines in Crisis: The Perfect Economic Storm," which lays out four bleak scenarios for the industry...
...that she met teenage friend Stuart Duncan, now a member of the famous Nashville Bluegrass Band. Barely 15 years old, the two hit the regional competition circuit during summer vacations and recorded an album, Pre-Sequel. In 1978, with Duncan’s father acting as escort and transport, the two teens criss-crossed the continent. Brown won the Canadian National Banjo Championship and played at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry...
There, far underground, rock-breaking machines crumble and grind the ore and mix it with water to form a soupy slurry, which is piped to surface containers to await transport to the Cameco refining mill at Key Lake, about 50 miles away. This underground processing plant is McArthur River's third major innovation. "What we've done," says Doug Beattie, the mine's chief engineer, "is essentially bring the front end of the mill down to the mine...
...Cambridge University in the early 1700s; George White, a former slave from Virginia who only learned to read at age 42 yet became a preacher and published author; and the anonymous "Sable Bard" of 1797 who tells his story in verse, from enslavement as a child in Africa, transport to America, and service in the Revolutionary War, to manumission and the struggle to survive as a freeman. Most mysterious of all is "Itaniko," the pseudonymous black poet of 1802 who identifies himself only as "A Person Confined in the [New Jersey] State-Prison...