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...into a suction tube held in the other. Suddenly, something metallic flashed in the dim light filtering through the water. It was a piece of gold jewelry that had remained hidden from sight for 34 centuries. In the next several minutes, the team members uncovered more jewelry, a quartz bead, broken arrowheads and pottery shards, which they stored in a red-and-white plastic container. To mark the precise spot of each discovery, they poked bicycle spokes into the sand, then measured the distance between the spokes and fixed reference points. Knowing the exact location of each item will enable...
Reagan, the nation's oldest President (Dwight Eisenhower was a less than sprightly 70 when he left office), has become virtually a symbol of eternal youth. Unlike many who reach his age and peer back into the past, Reagan is still taking a bead on what lies ahead. Just as Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic Congresses of the 1960s and '70s sought to stretch the upper limits of America's willingness to pay for an expanded Government role in the nation's domestic life, Reagan seeks to test the lower limits of that willingness. By tilting gain at the ramparts...
...were so different. That's probably why they were attracted to each other. They both love classical music and they both love my sisters and me. Aside from that, they had nothing in common. With Dad everything was precision, accuracy, "bead-on." He had the fastest slide rule in Arizona and spoke two languages: English and Computer. When I was about eleven, my dad came home and gathered us all in the kitchen. He held up a tiny little transistor he had brought home and said, "This is the future." I took the transistor from his hand...
With fewer words but equal devastation, Epstein draws a bead on Norman Mailer and plugs him as "a serious writer except when he is thinking, and the trouble is that over his long career he has been thinking a very great deal." Perhaps to quote such provocative thrashings is to suggest an intemperate, flailing harangue, but every round-house blow is prepared-with deft, critical jabs and well-documented proof of delinquency...
Finally, the Soviets could attack a Star Wars system directly. Orbiting satellites are vastly easier than missiles or warheads to track and draw a bead on. Just two possibilities: the Soviets could orbit a "space mine" that would blow up near an American satellite and destroy it, or a countersatellite that would discharge a cloud of pellets, capable at orbital speeds of piercing steel, or even beach sand, which could pit and disable laser mirrors. American satellites might be defended against such attacks. But once that kind of cycle begins, says William Shuler, coordinator of S.D.I. research at Livermore...