Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happy to tell us about the morally dubious purpose for which Pacific Blue was built -? that is, to simulate nuclear explosions and keep America?s stockpile of nukes in tip-top working order. No matter that struggling third-world superpowers like India want such virtual atom blasts included in the international test-ban treaty. The veep is more interested in the computer?s other potential uses -? like predicting climate change. So how about a Gore-Pacific Blue ticket...
...first they seem to be sock puppets who sound stoned. But soon they're your friends. Sifl and Olly sing songs, argue and interview the likes of an orgasm, a nine-volt battery, the Grim Reaper and an atom in one of Elvis' combs. The show's unscripted feel and sub-Kukla production values make the bizarre punch lines even more jolting. The chemistry between the puppets springs from the longtime friendship of Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco, two childhood friends from Nashville who, while in different colleges, used the voices on each other's answering machines. Now struggling musicians...
...think motorcycles are Japan's revenge for the atom bomb. Since 1945, bikes have killed or maimed more Americans than Japanese were killed at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. MARIO G. SEMERE Los Angeles
...being so hard-nosed about this? Androstenedione is not a vitamin, a mineral or a protein. It's an honest-to-goodness steroid. The only chemical difference between it and testosterone, which is found in varying degrees in both men and women, is a single hydrogen atom. That helps explain why androstenedione is banned by the National Football League and the International Olympic Committee. If you find it surprising that you can buy a steroid over the counter, you can thank the U.S. Congress, which in 1994 barred the Food and Drug Administration from regulating the "dietary supplements" industry...
Some U.S. intelligence officials believe North Korea has resumed a serious effort to build nuclear weapons. Evidence from multiple sources has persuaded them that leader KIM JONG IL is pushing the construction of a new reactor--underground to confound U.S. spy satellites--and trying to design usable atom bombs, possibly including missile warheads. Other analysts disagree; some Clinton Administration officials think hard-liners are leaking these reports to choke off congressional support for oil shipments to North Korea, which the U.S. pledged to fund in 1994 as part of a deal that shut down Pyongyang's known nuclear program. Even...