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...coast of that island, at 10 a.m. on May 10, 1945, a Japanese Zero flew in low against the U.S. aircraft carrier Bunker Hill and crashed onto the flight deck, igniting the 30 planes waiting to fly sorties. Thirty seconds later, another Japanese suicide flight dropped out of the sky and struck the Bunker Hill amidships, ripping open a 12m. hole with the blast of its 250-kg bomb and turning the fast carrier into an inferno for the next six hours. Of the 3,000 crewmen on board, 353 died in the smoke and flames. The kamikaze attacks were...
...this week's story the passion and wisdom of a seasoned cultural observer who fears the U.S. may become the only developed nation without a public source of money for the arts. He says he has never met House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the force behind the Republican effort to "zero out" federal cultural funding, but relishes an imagined encounter: "I would say, 'Chairman Newt, this is not the way to renew American civilization. You are making a big mistake.'" Which, for Hughes, would be a considerable understatement...
...valiant effort -- and it died quickly. The National Broiler Council, the poultry-industry trade association dominated by Tyson Foods, "raised all kinds of hell," recalls Lester Crawford, who ran the federal food-safety service at the time. "Given their political muscle, we reverted to the idiotic, unsupportable zero-degree rule almost instantly. Twenty-six degrees wasn't the rule even...
Einstein argued that as atoms approach absolute zero (-459.67 degrees F), the waves expand and finally overlap; the atoms merge into a single "quantum state." It's extraordinarily difficult to get them to 180 billionths of a degree above absolute zero, though -- the point at which the merging occurs. Thus the Boulder group's feat was a technical as well as a scientific...
Child stars lose it once their hormones kick in, nice guys finish last, and you can't shoot a movie in zero gravity. Those are just a few of the show-biz verities broken by Ron Howard, whose assured direction of Apollo 13 may finally help people get past his image as the TV tyke who grew up in our living rooms on The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days...