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...team painstakingly swept 120,000 linear miles of ocean with magnetometers, devices that detect irregularities in the earth's magnetic field--anomalies caused by, among other things, iron cannons, armor or anchors. They used side-scan and sub-bottom sonar and even commissioned an aerial survey, but the search did not yield a verifiable Atocha remnant. Says Fay Feild, an engineer and consultant to Treasure Salvors, who designed a special magnetometer for Fisher: "With a magnetometer, even in a limited area, only one in 100 'hits' has anything to do with a wreck. With a side- scanner...
...Alien and its new sequel, Weaver has been able to commandeer center screen with a character she larkishly calls "Rambolina." Beneath the armor, though, she has found exotic soulmates: "I secretly structured myself to play Ripley like Henry V and like the women warriors of classic Chinese literature." Aliens was no take-the-money-and-run proposition (though she was paid $1 million, about 30 times her salary for the 1979 original). As Cameron remarks, "She's intensely prepared. Her copy of the script was marked with 17 different colors of ink. The margin notes were incredible...
Other estimates go much higher: 4 million lbs. per year to start and vastly more than that if, for example, satellites were armored and made maneuverable to protect them against Soviet attack. SDI officials, says John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists, "are looking at increasing their annual to-orbit weight by a factor of ten to 50 times, and that assumes survivability apart from armor. If they go to armor, the numbers quickly become bizarre as opposed to just daunting...
...truck out over the horizon to a target 26 miles away. The two-year refitting also added long- range Tomahawk missiles, medium-range Harpoon missiles and four 20-mm Gatling- type guns designed to throw out a "wall of lead" to stop incoming missiles. Combined with her 13.5-in. armor plate and 212,000 horsepower, the weapons give the Navy an asset that amounts to more than just a national historical treasure. "She can run with any task force we put together," says Captain George Fink, who oversaw the Missouri's modernization...
...show covers every medium of visual art known in Europe, from armor to paper, from ceramics to tapestry. Durer, of course, is universally known--the Leonardo of the North, spiky, obsessive, all-seeing, whose images fluctuate between reverence for the world's tender details and horror at its resilient otherness. In Durer as in no other artist one sees the moralized universe of the Middle Ages retreating before the scientific one of the Renaissance, not giving ground gracefully but fighting every inch of the way. What the Nuremberg show offers is virtually a self-contained retrospective of his prints--famous...