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...Roland Mayer, chief engineer for General Electric's military space programs, whose "Beercan Bomber," carved out of a Miller Lite can, was disqualified because of its materials but still much admired. Commercial Pilot Anthony Martin of Talkeetna, Alaska, sent along 28 pages of instructions describing how to coax barrel rolls, chandelles and phugoid oscillations (downward arcs) from his two aerobatics entries, which were frugally folded from pink while-you-were-out message sheets...
...subsidiaries: Mobil Oil Southern Africa (MOSA) and Mobil Refining Company South Africa. MOSA sells fuels, lubricants, asphalt other products, owns about 1211 service station and has about 20.7 percent of the country's retail gasoline market share, according to company figures. Through the refining company, it owns 65,000-barrel-a-day refinery at Durban and 47 percent of a South African refining company. Some 3182 of Mobil's 178,100 worldwide employees are South Africans: of those 3182, 1014 are Black. I most recent Sullivan rating was the top category...
...problem is that the principles of bomb building are well known. In fact, the basic elements of the technology can be found in reference works like the Encyclopedia Americana. The trick is to place two slugs of plutonium close together in a container similar to a gun barrel, then smash the two together with explosives. This triggers the chain reaction that results in a nuclear explosion. However, achieving this involves advanced skills, expensive hardware and sophisticated electronic devices. Also, recovering plutonium from spent reactor fuel is costly and complex...
...test a bomb, but does not specify what Washington's actions would be. Nonetheless, says Proliferation Expert Weiss, "we're addressing Pakistan's real security needs, but we didn't extract a high enough price for it. Zia is acting as if he's got us over a barrel. We're acting as if we agree with that assessment...
...entire race, horse and people Owner George Steinbrenner saw his Eternal Prince come in twelfth at Churchill Downs. To be precise, Steinbrenner holds the deed on 37 1/2% of the colt, presumably the part that favors him. At one time he owned the whole animal--fetlock, stock and barrel--but auctioned it off for $17,500 to a used-car dealer from Richmond. For $750,000, George bought back in when his designated Derby horse, Image of Greatness, faltered. You might say, he fired the one and rehired the other. Or, put another way, when his image of greatness declined...