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...high visibility -- and vulnerability -- of British troops on the Continent. The 95,000 British soldiers in West Germany were ordered to exchange special black-and-white military license plates for ordinary British tags. This fall Thatcher plans to push legislation in Parliament that would curb Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., by requiring candidates for local council chambers in Northern Ireland to declare that they will not support any illegal organization...
...pledge caught on, and by World War I it was routinely recited in public schools. In 1924 the words "my flag" were amended to "the flag of the United States of America." The formal stiff-arm salute was discontinued in 1942 by an act of Congress; its similarity to the Nazi gesture may have been a contributing reason. In 1954 Congress added the words "under God" after "one nation...
...take off to the south, then head west. Below is the Hood Canal, an arm of Puget Sound, and the Navy shipyard at Bremerton. Ahead, partly obscured by clouds, are the Olympic Peninsula and the huge trees and muscular ridges and peaks of Olympic National Park. What we want to see from the air is the Shelton sustained-yield area, a heavily logged region just short of the park, most of it in the Olympic National Forest...
...methods, many still in the experimental stage, are myriad and mind boggling. Tiny biodegradable capsules are under development that can be embedded in a woman's thigh or arm and will automatically dispense contraceptive hormones for a year. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are experimenting with dissolvable plastic wafers that are implanted in the brain and slowly release an antitumor drug for cancer victims. The day is not far off when most diabetics will be able to give themselves insulin with a nasal spray. In California doctors are working on drug-loaded bubbles of fat that bind themselves...
...different from me. I'm 64 and he's 41," said George Bush of his rambunctious, arm-waving running mate. Bush's suggestion that 23 years was the most important distinction between Indiana's Senator Dan Quayle and himself set off a wave of son-of-Bush explanations for the Vice President's startling choice of a successor. But such a description shortchanges Bush and unduly enhances Quayle, whose life can be reduced, says John Palffy, his former Senate staff economist, to "family, golf and politics." The second-term Senator, of modest accomplishments, is a lot less qualified...