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Earth To Mars In TWo Weeks.(design of americium-fueled nuclear rocket)(Brief Article)
Popular Mechanics
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March 1, 2001
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A new type of nuclear rocket could reduce the current six- to eight-month trip to Mars to under two weeks.
Unlike American nuclear rockets of the 1960s that used uranium and plutonium fuels, the new engine would be powered by a form of the element americium (Am-242), says its designer, Yigal Ronen of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.
The advantage of Am-242 is that it allows nuclear fission to be sustained in a film less than a millimeter ...
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Modest modernity Harriet Beecher Stowe's house is a mirror of America in transition
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Tom's Cabin" that made Harriet Beecher Stowe a household name. "So this...the French in flavors," Harriet wrote. In Italy she bought...You would not have found Harriet Stowe and Catharine Beecher at the founding of the women...
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Sen. Snowe Introduces Harriet Beecher Stowe House Special Resource Study Act
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine, has introduced the Harriet Beecher Stowe House Special Resource Study Act (S. 662...special resource study to evaluate resources at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Brunswick, Maine, to determine the suitability...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life.
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books
; ...the writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom has...researched Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life...work Harriet Beecher Stowe provides...job of presenting Stowe's earlier life. Born in 1811, Harriet Beecher spent her...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Casebook/The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe
Magazine article from: Legacy
; Harrtet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin...Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe. By Sarah Robbins...Elizabeth Ammons's Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom...Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe join a growing body...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Casebook.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
; Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Casebook...authors. Elizabeth Ammons's Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Casebook...s The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe join a growing body of criticism...
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MARGARET CHASE SMITH, HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, AIR FORCE ONE AND MARINE ONE STAMPS AVAILABLE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...stamp, the 75-cent 3-ounce Harriet Beecher Stowe stamp, the $4.60 Priority...up to the Civil War and made Stowe internationally famous. It has...translated into numerous languages. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Conn...
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Supporters see better future for Harriet Beecher Stowe house
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin...said. The museum will anchor a Harriet Beecher Stowe Cultural District that will include...Kane, executive director of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford...
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Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture
Magazine article from: Legacy
; Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture. Edited by Denise Kohn, Sarah Meer...of Iowa Press, 2006. 302 pp. $39.95. When discussing Harriet Beecher Stowe these days, scholars often begin by marveling...
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Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
; Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture. Edited by Denise Kohn, Sarah Meer...of Iowa Press, 2006. 302 pp. $39.95. When discussing Harriet Beecher Stowe these days, scholars often begin by marveling...
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Unmasking Harriet Beecher Stowe Joan Hedrick, who won a Pulitzer for biography, says her subject was no prize
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...years researching and writing "Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life," which won this year...describe Stowe's reaction when Harriet Jacobs, a former slave, sought...students at Trinity did a project on Harriet Beecher Stowe, alerting her to the vast amount...
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