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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pleasant surprise?" he says, laughing incredulously. "I said, 'Didn't you know I ran the 100 in 9.6, didn't you know I weigh 190 pounds? That's odd, a pleasant surprise...
While the bare bones of the bill are unattractive, some important features added by a House-Senate conference committe this summer make it even more unsavory. The conference shifted the burdens of cost to weigh more heavily on residential users rather than on industry, raised incremental price levels for old gas which is already flowing, and put stringent limits on the amount of gas which can be allocated to home owners in an emergency shortage. none of these measures will help Americans to stop using oil or save energy; all of them were apparently inserted to placate feisty legislators from...
...standard, adamant that the public perceive her as a "woman who can take care of herself." When a reporter asks for her vital statistics, she looks him square in the eye and says, "I don't know. I don't even know how much I weigh." But she slips into the word "girls" when lapsing into pageant talk. And she will not comment on the Equal Rights Amendment because, she says, she does not feel well enough informed...
Such pregnancies are disturbingly common. Of 3.1 million babies born in the U.S. each year, nearly 30,000 do not survive their first week. Many are born prematurely and weigh less than 5½ lbs. Another 20,000 die in the uterus late in pregnancy. While the number of doctors and nurses with the skills needed to deal with such cases is growing, they are often situated at scattered medical centers not easily accessible to women and infants who most need them...
...1930s, on the eve of World War II, Oppenheimer published two landmark papers in the journal Physical Review. The first, in collaboration with a graduate student named George Volkoff, argued that neutron stars could in fact exist. They would have a diameter of about 10 km (6 miles) and weigh about 10 million tons per cu. cm. In the second paper, innocuously titled "On Continued Gravitational Contraction," Oppenheimer and another student, Hartland Snyder, contended that if the dying star was massive enough, nothing in Einstein's theory stood in the way of the ultimate compression?the formation of a singularity...