Word: volts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designed to glide without power for a distance at least 16 times its altitude. In the case of Air Canada Flight 143, that meant more than 100 miles. As soon as the second engine went out, an elaborate series of automatic backup mechanisms was activated. A 24-volt nickel-cadmium emergency battery took over the plane's dead electrical system, providing enough juice to operate the radio and the key instruments in the cockpit. At the same time, a ram-air turbine dropped into position beneath the aircraft's belly. The airstream passing through the turbine generated enough...
...part of a national "seeds for the future" effort in science and technology, Tsukuba Science City now has an annual government budget of $600 million and a staff of 7,000 scientists, engineers and technicians. Their investigations extend from high-energy physics (using a 12 billion electron volt accelerator) to searches for new lightweight, heat-resistant materials. In one cavernous seven-story building nicknamed the "rainmaker house," researchers are simulating weather in order to understand rain-induced mudslides, a recurring problem in Japan. Another laboratory contains a huge "shaking table" on which large model structures are tested for their ability...
...York metropolitan area with an advertising campaign for its new rental beeper, fittingly named the Li'l Bugger. Suggests a newspaper ad: "Lose 'em, beep 'em-find 'em, keep 'em." The Li'l Bugger, which is powered by one A A 1.5-volt battery and has a range of 30 miles, rents for $39.95 a year with a $5-a-month broadcast fee and a 25? charge per call. Metromedia says it has been getting 1,250 inquiries a week about the product, which comes done up in a colored plastic case decorated with...
...bomb had been rigged up ingeniously. The cookbook was only 1½ in. thick, but someone had hollowed it out and placed inside a six-volt battery wired to gunpowder and three bullets. The police were mystified, as were neighbors and coworkers. Who would want to do Mrs. Kipp any harm? Affable and popular, mother of two grown children, Joan Kipp was treasurer of the Bay Ridge Community Council and was expected to be named vice president the following month. Said her grieving son Craig, 27, to a group of reporters: "It was an irresponsible, violent act that doesn...
...tour, the journey back to Ireland or Italy or Africa to find ancestors and ties. A travel agency in Atlanta is doing good business taking American blacks to Africa to try the old genetic recessional: Americans in their retrospective dream. Religion has always driven travelers, from the wild Deus volt of the First Crusade to more peaceful pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Mecca, Lourdes and Rome...