Article: Rudolph Technologies Announces Record Earnings and Revenue.

Article: Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... was asked by his superiors to try to manufacture a safe, workable coolant. (At that time, General Motors was the parent company to Frigidaire.) Midgley and his associate chemists thought that fluorine might work because they had read that carbon tetrafluoride ...

Article: International Space Station (ISS)
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... logistics transport vehicles. Russia is contributing two research modules, the Service Module, which includes early living quarters with life support and habitation systems, a science power platform that can supply 20 kilo-watts of electrical power, logistics ...

Article: Jemison, Mae C. (1956- )
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... astronaut corps in March 1993, she accepted a teaching fellowship at Dartmouth and also established the Jemison Group, a company that seeks to research, develop, and market advanced technologies. See also History of exploration III (Modern era ...

Article: Space Shuttle
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... astronauts control the spacecraft's flight in orbit and during descent. Below the flight deck are the crew's personal quarters, containing personal lockers, sleeping, eating, and toilet facilities, and other necessary living units. The crew cabin ...

Article: Urey, Harold (1893-1981)
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... acknowledged his obligation to participate in the nation's war effort. As a result, he accepted a job at the Barrett Chemical Company in Philadelphia and worked to develop high explosives. In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Urey said that this experience ...

Article: Waste Disposal
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ... ... In addition, local government agencies may provide disposal or recycling services, or they may hire or authorize private companies to perform those functions. Throughout history, there have been four basic methods of managing waste: dumping it, burning ...

Article: "Wow!" signal
World of Earth Science;      448 words ... ... for an elusive radio signal that would confirm the existence of extraterrestrial life. One of the major efforts in the last quarter of the twentieth century was a project termed the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI ). Over the years the SETI ...