Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cuts a striking figure in fringed leather, high boots and a trademark bandanna wrapped around his head, an urban swashbuckler whose frigate just got towed away for double parking. "Hey, Miami!" yell a | couple of citizens cruising by in a Chevy convertible. He waves and shouts back as the car runs a light at Broadway. "Miami," Van Zandt sighs. "That means they still know me from Bruce...
More than two years after Bernhard Goetz pulled out a revolver and shot four black teenagers who had demanded $5 from him in a Manhattan subway car, his case went before a New York City jury last week. The panel of two blacks and ten whites, half of whom have been victims of crime, will try to settle a question millions have debated since the December 1984 episode: Was the subway vigilante justified in defending himself against what he saw as an imminent attack, or was he a trigger-happy racist poised to strike at the slightest provocation...
...electronics technician, faced 13 criminal charges, including four for attempted murder. Defense Attorney Barry Slotnick insisted, however, that Goetz "was the real victim in this case." Slotnick announced that he planned to defend his client by "prosecuting" the four "vicious predators" who surrounded Goetz on the subway car. Despite an admonition from Judge Stephen Crane, Slotnick referred to Goetz's victims as "drug addicts" and attempted to bring up their criminal records. (Two of the four are in jail on other charges, one for the rape of an adolescent girl, and a third is completing drug rehabilitation. The fourth shooting...
...then there are the daydreams: giant underground loops of superconducting cable that can store vast amounts of electricity for later use; cars that run on tiny, powerful electric motors, drawing current from superconducting storage devices. But even the daydreams are taken at least somewhat seriously. At Ford, for example, a study group has been assembled to rethink the feasibility of the electric car in light of the recent advances in superconductivity. Says IBM Physicist John Baglin: "The question is not 'How can we take this material and do something everyone has wanted to do?' but 'How can we do something...
...principle behind the maglev is simple: opposite magnetic poles attract each other; like poles repel. In Japan's version, eight superconducting electromagnets are built into the sides of each train car, and thousands of metal coils are set into the floor of the guideway. When the train is in motion, the electromagnets on the train induce electric currents in the guideway coils, which then themselves become electromagnets. As power is increased, the opposing sets of magnets repel each other and lift the train into the air. Two other rows of electromagnets, one on each wall of the U- shaped guideway...