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FUEL-AIR EXPLOSIVES. The deadliest non-nuclear bombs in the allied arsenal, they disperse a highly volatile mist over a large area. When this cloud is ignited in a second explosion, the resulting blast packs nearly the wallop (but, of course, not the radiation) of a small nuclear device. The bombs also suck up oxygen, pulling the lungs and other organs of stricken troops partially out of their bodies. The mist from some fuel-air bombs can penetrate bunkers before detonating. Another advantage is that while the force of a conventional explosion decreases rapidly as one moves away from...
...less ambiguous than picking out one building in a crowded neighborhood for demolition. The campaign against Iraq's dug-in divisions is a textbook exercise in air warfare: hundreds of planes are in the sky every day, with F-15s flying a protective patrol high above, while attack planes blast away at tanks, artillery pieces and ammunition dumps below...
...longest wait anyone expected. The journalists were reading signs of an imminent attack that must have been just as obvious to Saddam's generals. Among them: American bombing was moving closer and closer to the Iraqi front lines; the allies were using new weapons, including fuel-air bombs, to blast paths through the minefields that soldiers and tanks would have to cross in an initial assault; and weather conditions were close to ideal. Late last week there began a period of dark nights with little or no moonlight (favorable to allied troops, whose night-fighting equipment and training are vastly...
...example, there is only scant consideration of the enormous legal responsibility the University incurs when official Harvard groups travel abroad. Just imagine what would happen if a bomb blast killed a planeload of Harvard musicians. No doubt, a stampede of attornies (maybe even some Harvard alumni) would trample each other in a rush to file a well-publicized and lucrative class-action suit against the University...
First-seed Jeremy Fraiberg, on the other hand, lost for the first time this season to Midshipman Sunil Desai, 3-2. Desai, older brother of Crimson racquetwoman Vanya Desai, took advantage of the toasty warm courts to blast the ball past Fraiberg...