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...Such a game would probably not have been played in the depths of the cold war, but if it had, there would probably have been considerably more saber rattling, perhaps even nuclear warnings. In the Gorbachev era, both sides go out of their way to avoid escalation. The Soviets cancel strategic exercises because they might be misunderstood. In the investigation of the poison-gas attack in Washington, Georgi Arbatov, the director of the Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, who plays a national security adviser to the Kremlin, orders the KGB to work directly with...
...cancel that charcoal. Some jokester dressed in a knight uniform just threw a bucket of water on the flame...
...pilots of small jets and other light (and noisy) aircraft. Rather than soften the drumming engine noise with thick layers of plastic foam, the earphones eliminate it electronically. A tiny microphone samples sound waves at the wearer's ear, processes them through special circuitry and broadcasts countertones that cancel the offending sounds in midair. Result: silence, or something close...
...controversy arose last week when Georgetown Dean of Student Affairs Jack DeGioia forced the student newspaper The Hoya to cancel its Friday issue because it contained an advertisement urging students to support abortion rights...
...ticks roguishly into view. The foresighted journeyer will have made an appointment to use his car's shower next morning, and the porter will knock at the proper time with a bathrobe. At breakfast, a driven soul may have a cellular phone brought to the table to cancel some airline reservations or fax the menu (of course there is fax) to his worst enemy...