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Entering the U.S. embassy in Kabul, for example, a visitor is scrutinized at a dozen different fallback layers of security. First he has to sign in, have his passport checked and business verified at a gatehouse. Searchlights sometimes follow him across the courtyard, closed-circuit TV cameras beam his image to half a dozen screens inside. Behind the electronically controlled door, credentials are checked again, cameras and tape recorders yielded. An electronic detection booth checks further for hidden weapons; Marines stand ready to frisk thoroughly. Finally, when a member of the embassy staff emerges to provide a personal escort...
STANFORD, Cal.--Stanford University has announced plans to build a $60 million underground addition to its linear accelerator to hold an energy beam of 100 billion electron volts--three times more powerful than any other in the world...
...five-hour drive to Las Vegas. When the radio signals fade, deep boredom sets in. But next month a new FM station, KRXV, will come to the rescue with news, weather, tourist information, plus the music of Vegas headliners. Owner Howard Anderson won approval for his station, which will beam its signal directly along the highway, by arguing that his listeners form a "mobile community" with common needs. Not all of them are wagerers, however. Seems that fully 25% of the 23 million people who drive the route each year peel off into the Mojave Desert just to spend...
...jugend glowed in the golden well-being of their Aryamsm. At the nighttime finale, reported The New Yorkers Janet Planner "a giant chorus sang Schiller's words to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; overhead, 17 searchlights from far outside the arena made a lofty birdcage of streaming light beams. Imagine if television had been there to catch the spectacle in color and beam it by satellite to a world of viewers...
...roads fit only for hockey practice. They wolf down chilling chicken, cold "hot barbecue," undunkable doughnuts and crumbling cookies at countless gatherings in tiny towns and villages. They tout their talents at press conferences, talk shows, town meetings, union halls, Rotary Clubs and American Legion posts. Their faces beam forth from television and newspaper ads. Former Republican National Chairman Mary Louise Smith sums up the grim reality: "Iowa has become the new New Hampshire...