Word: basinger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Using crack is easier and less complicated than free-basing cocaine. Since powdered coke cannot be ignited and smoked, free-basers wash a cocaine base with ether to clean out impurities. Once dried, the residue is heated with a torch and smoked. The extreme volatility of ether makes this a...
The original goal was to build a missile that could survive a Soviet attack in sufficient numbers to pose a credible threat of retaliation. The big, three-warhead Minuteman is vulnerable to destruction in its silos. The ten- warhead MX is no answer. Though it was supposed to be mobile...
Nathan Glazer, professor of education andsocial structure, endorsed the principles behind"What Works," though he said he was basing hisjudgment only on newspaper accounts.
Midgetman's chief support came from a 1983 presidential commission appointed by Reagan to come up with a basing plan for the 10-warhead MX.
If comets are simply hurtling hunks of ice, where do they come from, and how do they get here? The same year that Whipple spun his theory of cosmic snowballs, Dutch Astronomer Jan Oort conceived of a kind of enormous warehouse for comets, which would come to be known as...