Word: zinc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conducts a doomed 100-day armed-robbery career. Resurfacing in Stick, seven years and a prison stretch later, he has scarcely improved; he worships Actor Warren Oates and thinks disco is dynamite. But, like all of Leonard's main men, deep down he is as incorrodable as a zinc bar and as heady as the stuff...
...concentrations of ozone and get more rain, which washes chemicals onto the trees. "Most people think of remote mountains as ideal vacation spots that are very clean, but they're not," declares Johnson. Many isolated areas in the mountains of New England have abnormally high levels of copper, zinc, nickel and cadmium. And the Green Mountains of New Hampshire, seemingly pristine, in fact rival big cities when it comes to lead pollution...
...assess the severity of the problem. The Forest Service, for example, has just started a study of the condition of yellow pine, the South's prime source of commercial timber. At Oak Ridge, botanists are examining samples of soil for traces of metals such as aluminum and zinc. In May, U.S. forest experts will travel to West Germany to compare notes with European scientists; in turn, German researchers will visit the U.S. in June. Says Fred White, staff forester with the North Carolina division of forest resources in Raleigh: "Initial answers for this phenomenon will probably be a combination...
Manhattan's Le Zinc restaurant, with its high ceiling and zinc-topped bar, is a popular spot for New Yorkers to relax with dinner and a drink after work. But last week the atmosphere be came less convivial for those pregnant women accustomed to their evening cocktail. On a mirrored wall behind the bar, amid an array of posted regulations, a new sign in stark black lettering went up. It read: "Warning: Drinking Alcoholic Beverages During Pregnancy Can Cause Birth Defects...
...puzzling sources of X rays. These could not be observed under the earth's obscuring atmosphere. In a bit of zero-g alchemy, the astronauts succeeded in creating an entirely new alloy. Under the benevolent influence of microgravity, they were able to form a mix of aluminum and zinc, two metals that cannot easily be combined on earth. Extremely strong yet lightweight, the alloy, if it could be produced in mass quantities in space, might be useful for superstructures of airplanes or spacecraft...