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...sets and costumes effectively highlight the juxtaposition between Captain Shotover's loose, churlish demeanor and the aristocratic pretentiousness of the younger generation. Shotover's house looks like an old sea vessel; its rickety poop deck is fashioned as a veranda and netting drapes the furniture and bookcases. The lavish, flamboyant costumes are appropriately incongruous in Shotover's domestic environment...
...winner of the annual Harvard-Brown encounter receives the Stein Cup--a vessel some believe is a Wursthaus beer stein. That delusion comes from the Crimson's complete domination of the series. Harvard has taken all 14 Stein Cups...
...officials studied the complex hazard, they discovered yet another ominous possibility: if the amount of hydrogen in the reactor kept growing, it could reach a level at which only a spark would be needed to set off a hydrogen-gas explosion. If the explosion were powerful enough, the core vessel might rupture and the concrete walls of the container building might break, exposing the surrounding area to the reactor's escaping radioactivity. One NRC official saw this eventuality as in some ways worse than a meltdown. Said he: "With a meltdown you get a warning of four to five hours...
...reactor's power center is its fuel core. Housed in a pressure-cooker-like reactor vessel, the core is filled with pellets of fissionable uranium packed in bundles of thin cylindrical zircaloy rods. Inserted into the core are still other rods, usually made of cadmium or boron, which absorb and retain neutrons given off by the uranium atoms-in effect, stopping the billiards and regulating the intensity of the reaction. To start the reactor, the control rods are raised to precisely calculated levels. The chain reaction begins, converting mass into energy and producing great quantities of heat...
Throughout the night the ship blazed, lighting up the harbor and causing the Cunard Countess to cast off from its neighboring berth and head for the safety of the open sea. The intense heat melted through the blue-and-white vessel's metal plating and buckled its superstructure. Authorities considered towing the ship out to sea in case it exploded, but were afraid it might capsize in the 20-m.p.h. wind. By early the next morning, the ship had settled to the bottom, its unsubmerged topsides still flaming. None of the passengers or 360 crewmembers were seriously hurt...