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	surface tension surface tension tendency of liquids to reduce their exposed surface to the smallest possible area. A drop of water, for example, tends to assume the shape of a sphere. The phenomenon is attributed to cohesion, the attractive forces acting between the molecules of the liquid (see adhesion and... Read more
	Healing healing The expectation of a cure for all ills among people in the developed world increases enormously with the growth of medical technology and with scientific exploration of the human body. In America, they say, death is optional, and indeed plastic surgery, organ transplants, heroic chemical... Read more
	Challenger Challenger U.S. space shuttle. It exploded (Jan. 28, 1986) 73 seconds into its tenth flight, killing all seven crew members, including the first civilian in space, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. The disaster was caused by the faulty design of a gasket (the O-ring seal). As dramatically... Read more
	pattern bombing pattern bombing, method devised by Maj-General LeMay during the Eighth US Army Air Force's (USAAF) daytime strategic air offensive against Germany in which the entire bombload of a formation was dropped simultaneously. The British had already discovered how inaccurate their bombing was (see Butt... Read more
	Jedburgh teams Jedburgh teams, groups of three uniformed men—an Englishman, an American, and a Frenchman—dropped into France at the time of the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 (see OVERLORD), and for the following ten weeks. Drawn from SOE and the Office of Strategic Services, they acted as a staff... Read more
	Stock prices DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE (DJIA) A measure of stock prices of important industrial companies, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was first printed in the Wall Street Journal in 1897. The average is an indicator of the overall stock market and is used, along with other indexes, by... Read more
	Black Monday Black Monday Oct. 19, 1987, in U.S. history, day of financial panic. The Dow Jones Average fell 508.32 points, a drop of 22.6%, the largest since 1914. The point decline as well as the volume, 604.33 million shares, exceeded previous records. Among the possible causes were investors' anxiety... Read more
	Foot Drop Foot drop Definition Foot drop is a weakness of muscles that are involved in flexing the ankle and toes. As a result, the toes droop downward and impede the normal walking motion. Description The use of the term foot drop can make it seem as if the condition is rather simple and inconsequential.... Read more
	Nuclear Age NUCLEAR AGE. The nuclear age began in mid-July 1945 when an 18.6-kiloton nuclear bomb was detonated at the Trinity test site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Three weeks later, on 6 August 1945, the world became aware of the existence of nuclear weapons when a U.S. B-29 bomber known as Enola Gay... Read more