Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flywheel in Rosen Motors' power train is something different altogether. It is a roughly 12-in. by 7-in. cylinder that hangs suspended in a vacuum from magnetic bearings and normally spins at 55,000 r.p.m.; today's cars run at an average of 2,000 r.p.m. The energy of the flywheel is stored in this rapid rotation, which generates electricity on demand. In the Rosens' power train, the flywheel works in conjunction with a gas-driven microturbine to make...
...failure to become aroused may signal a medical problem. The immediate cause of impotence is a lack of blood flow to the penis, and a wide range of treatments is available. Men can take pills that dilate the blood vessels and help facilitate an erection, or they can use vacuum instruments that draw blood into the penis. On the more invasive side, they can inject drugs into the base of the penis that dilate blood vessels, or patients can undergo surgery for penile implants...
...protons. Yet the solar wind is a gossamer thing, far less substantial than a whisper. "What you have," marvels Gurman, "is a million tons of matter moving at a million miles per hour. But its density is so low that essentially you're dealing with the physics of a vacuum...
...nature abhors a vacuum, so too does the Kremlin. Yeltsin's latest disappearance overlapped the humiliating attack by Chechen separatists that gave them back control of their capital, Grozny. The President's absence allowed his fractious advisers to play out their own power struggle with the lives of thousands of Chechen civilians and Russian soldiers. Conflicting views within the Russian government about how to respond produced astounding zigzags in policy. Even as the Chechen war seemed to subside at week's end with dramatic news of a truce and maybe even a peace agreement, there was a sense that...
...coughed" at intervals as well. Coughing gets rid of the mucus in his respiratory system--in his throat or sometimes deep in his lungs. A nurse holds a coughalator to his throat, which functions like a vacuum cleaner. When she removes the tubing to the ventilator, it sets off a high-pitched alarm, as in a pop-off. Then she puts in inhalers to help Reeve's lungs open and breathe...