Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...safe because of the protective presence of a pine forest higher on the slope, an avalanche killed 13 people and demolished 20 chalets. Unable to prevent avalanches, the Swiss believe that it sometimes pays to start them at a time and place of their choosing. One method is to blast avalanche-prone slopes with mortars and grenades, a technique also used by U.S. Forest Service rangers. Another is to send an expert-and courageous-skier across the slopes in the hope that his tracks will cut the snow into sections and relieve tensions before they build to a dangerous level...
...explosion might have resulted from a malfunction, but investigators doubted it; the blast occurred toward the tail section, probably in the baggage or mail compartment. Only three hours earlier, an Austrian Airlines plane bound from Frankfurt to Vienna (where some of its mail was to be transferred to another AUA flight to Tel Aviv) had been buffeted by a similar explosion that tore a hole in its fuselage. Luckily, the Austrian's pilot was able to land safely at Frankfurt, where experts traced the explosion to a mailbag labeled for Israel. In Amman, an obscure Arab terrorist organization called...
...light against Honshu's black mountain ridges. By day, the world's largest metropolis (pop. 11.4 million) is a hazy brown and gray sprawl. Prosperity has only worsened Tokyo's housing shortage, its snarled traffic, and the soot that boils in across the brown Sumida River from the blast furnaces of Kawasaki, which has 3,000 industrial plants and a population of 940,000. Two-thirds of Tokyo is still without sewers; residents are served by "honeybucket" men, trucks and a "night-soil fleet" of disposal ships, some as big as 1,000 tons, that make daily dumping trips offshore...
...bases in Thailand. On some, their markings were painted over in an attempt to maintain the fiction that there is no U.S. military involvement in Laos. The engines never stopped. As doors opened, Laotian and American officials herded refugees aboard, many clutching terrified children as they leaned into the blast of the prop wash...
...takes a little sweat, too. Stampfl espouses "interval training," alternating a lengthy series of full-blast sprints with periods of restful jogging. Using cardiographs and checks on pulse, respiration and blood pressure, he gradually expanded Doubell's training program to the limits of the athlete's physical capacity. After five years, Doubell now runs six miles every morning; in the evening, he runs three miles and follows that with a series which can consist of 50 sprints over 100 yds., or 30 over 220 yds., or simply five half miles. Beyond that, Stampfl says he teaches his runners...