Words & Wordplay - September 2006

2006-09-28 15:11:20 · 5 answers · asked by Jacks036 5

Please something having to do negative effects...

2006-09-28 15:07:01 · 9 answers · asked by rottymom02 5

i know i've heard it somewhere but i cant figure it out & im trying to win an argument!

2006-09-28 15:00:56 · 6 answers · asked by ericck1991 2

2006-09-28 14:50:35 · 4 answers · asked by evil izzy 2

This is for language research. We need a list of noun pairs which have meaning by themselves but mean something else together. Other examples could be traffic light, diamond ring, tree house. It seems easy but it's kinda tricky. Have fun!!

2006-09-28 14:49:44 · 6 answers · asked by Ronnoco 1

2006-09-28 14:22:42 · 2 answers · asked by Darren Z 1

2006-09-28 14:16:21 · 4 answers · asked by evil izzy 2

2006-09-28 13:22:45 · 17 answers · asked by SmartL 1

2006-09-28 13:21:29 · 6 answers · asked by David D 1

2006-09-28 13:20:46 · 3 answers · asked by Windsor 5

Thanks to all that answered my question so far-> greeneyed, babydol70, and Canadian Ken, but I forgot to mention that we did discuss the possible answers to this puzzle in class we also came up with "WASH SHOWER SOAP" but guess what he said that wasn't correct. For everyone to be coming up with the same exact answer it's impossible for us to be wrong....I think he's just trying to pull our leg and wants us to stress out over this non-sense. For anyone else who wants to try and guess it's W_ _ h Sh_ _ er S_ _ p

2006-09-28 13:03:42 · 8 answers · asked by Kyri 1

2006-09-28 13:02:18 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-28 12:56:52 · 8 answers · asked by BATISTA 4

China claims success in test of fusion reactor
Posted 9/28/2006 7:50 AM



By Alexa Olesen, The Associated Press
BEIJING — Scientists on Thursday carried out China's first successful test of an experimental fusion reactor, powered by the process that fuels the sun, a research institute spokeswoman said.
China, the United States and other governments are pursuing fusion research in hopes that it could become a clean, potentially limitless energy source. Fusion produces little radioactive waste, unlike fission, which powers conventional nuclear reactors.

Beijing is eager for advances, both for national prestige and to reduce its soaring consumption of imported oil and dirty coal.

The test by the government's Institute of Plasma Physics was carried out on a Tokamak fusion device in the eastern city of Hefei, said Cheng Yan, a spokeswoman at the institute.

Cheng said the test was considered a success because the reactor produced plasma, a hot cloud of supercharged particles. She wouldn't give other details.

"This represents a step for humankind in the study of nuclear reaction," she said.

U.S. and other scientists have been experimenting with fusion for decades but it has yet to be developed into a viable energy alternative.

"I think it is a considerable step ahead for China," said Karl Heinz Finken, a senior scientist at the Institute for Plasma Physics in Juelich, Germany, who had no role in the Chinese research.

"China is speeding up with the development of nuclear fusion and I think at the moment they are making considerable progress," he said.

The Chinese facility is similar to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, being built by a seven-nation consortium in Cadarache in southern France, according to state media. That reactor is due to be completed in 2015.

China is a partner in the ITER reactor, along with the European Union, the United States, Japan, Russia, India and South Korea.

A Tokamak reactor uses a doughnut-shaped magnetic field to contain the hot gas.

Several countries have produced plasma using a Tokamak or similar device, said Gabriel Marbach, deputy head of fusion research at the ITER facility. He said producing plasma was only one step toward the fusion that ITER aims to perform, and that the project could be helped by the Chinese experiments.

"It was important for China to show that it is part of the club, and that adds value to its participation in ITER," Marbach said.

"That is not to say that it is at the level of the Europeans or Americans," he said. However, he added, "We are rather admiring of the Chinese for conducting this test. It was conducted well, and they constructed (the machine) rather quickly."

China is the world's No. 2 oil consumer and its No. 3 importer, consuming at least 3.5 million barrels of foreign oil per day last year.

China plans to build dozens of nuclear power plants and is trying to promote use of cleaner alternative energy sources such as natural gas, wind power and methanol made from corn.


AP correspondent Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

2006-09-28 12:45:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've always wanted to do this!!! I'll start the story and whoever answers next will write ONLY ONE paragraph and we'll see how the story turns out! And whoever writes the most interesting one, I'll pick.

I gazed around at the view before me, shaded by the outside world, in the grove I felt safe. The corners of my vision blurred as I was exposed to patches of the burning ball of fire. Thin lines, almost invisible to my occupied mind, flew past in waves flowing in the wind, it took me a while to realized my hair had also gone to the rythmic symphany of this peaceful forest.

2006-09-28 12:43:00 · 4 answers · asked by mysteriousmystery 2

2006-09-28 12:18:49 · 5 answers · asked by rischballer19 1

Also, do you know how to use there, they're and their properly?

What do you think is the reason people don't or can't use them correctly?

Is it down to emails and texting?

Do you care?

Should we care?

2006-09-28 11:49:13 · 43 answers · asked by Dazza 3

2006-09-28 11:36:49 · 9 answers · asked by ortheother 1

Does anyone have any idea what language this is.. or is it just nonsense? zdravo serce kako si mi jasum dejan mnogu sakam da izlezam negde so tebe zaso mi se dopagas serce i da mi kazes kolu godini imas serce ok i da mi se javis na ovoj broj serce te sakam mnogu da znaes ti me sakas mene ili ne so e problemot serce 075-898-253 ok serce te cekam da mi se javis da se slusime serce caooooooooooooooo

2006-09-28 11:23:38 · 5 answers · asked by yutellme44 1

2006-09-28 11:04:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

My inspiration came out of .... Holy Jihad ....
which I will never accept!!

2006-09-28 10:41:17 · 17 answers · asked by sandolina 2

or why do people always say roger and out when talking on walkie talkies

2006-09-28 10:36:58 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mine are: "extra money" and "rap music."

2006-09-28 10:35:34 · 20 answers · asked by CrankyYankee 6

2006-09-28 10:08:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-28 10:04:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have looked this up in the dictionary but how long is a moment ?
Similar expressions such as 'just a tick' suggest anything from 1/2 second to 3 or 4. Opinions appreciated only if accompanied by valid reasoning. Thanks

2006-09-28 09:58:12 · 7 answers · asked by scrambulls 5

Mine are - What was I Scared of? & The Big Brag...because they are good lessons to learn.... oh, and I can read them...
I attempted to read Fox in Sox to my son this evening for the umteenth time and I still cant get it right... we were laughing our sox off

2006-09-28 09:15:01 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

For starters we brits would own all the bloody oil and most of the coconuts in the world, we might of even let the Americans become one of our colonies again if they as nicely...

2006-09-28 08:56:58 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am taking a vocabulary course, in highschool, does any-one know what the heck Autocrat means, if you go please tell me, I need to know some-time today, help!!!!!

2006-09-28 08:50:40 · 9 answers · asked by Cat 1

Learned it in college and forgot it. Just one of those random thoughts that pop up. I am grateful for any help with it.

2006-09-28 08:46:16 · 11 answers · asked by juggernaut 1