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...sources have naturally tended to emphasize the importance of ground troops. From mid-August to mid-January, best-case scenarios abounded of a two-week air war, with U.S. dead no more than a few hundred. They were offered by White House, Pentagon and Congressional officials, who sought to buoy public support yet not make it so contingent on optimism that it could evanesce. Although these scenarios were usually characterized as the happiest rather than the likeliest, they were widely reported and believed by news consumers seeking reassurance...
...high. It's amazing how a little gloom can paralyze you. Meet new people? Work for free when you've just been laid off? You may not feel like it. First things first, after all. Yet, far from interfering with your job search, a volunteer job is apt to buoy your spirits -- possibly even teach you new skills or establish new contacts -- and thus enhance your prospects...
...active" by electronically transmitting a "ping" that would locate a target when the sound waves bounce back from it. The problem: echoes from the ping would also disclose the location of the tracker, even if the ping were generated from a third source, such as a buoy towed behind the sub or dangled in the water by a helicopter. The alternative is nonacoustic detection. For example, researchers are exploring ways of sensing a submarine's magnetic field, its thermal radiation or the turbulence in its wake. Some are even studying the bio- luminescence and the scattering of fish caused...
...when Cousins told Hazelwood by phone that he was starting to turn. But the ship's course recorder shows that the Valdez did not start to change direction until seven minutes later. Next, the lookout on duty ran into the ship's pilothouse to report that a flashing red buoy near Bligh Reef, which should have been visible on the port (left) side, had been spotted on the starboard (right) side...
...threat to local marine life quickly became apparent. As oil gushed out at the rate of 20,000 gal. an hour, emergency teams found ducks coated with crude and sea lions with flippers drenched in oil clinging to a buoy near the wreck. By the time the leak had slowed to a dribble a day later, an estimated 270,000 bbl. of oil had escaped, producing a slick 8 miles long and 4 miles wide. It appeared to be the largest spill, if not the worst in terms of ecological damage, in U.S. history...