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...United States Air Force dictionary defines anti-personnel weapons is devices designed to destroy of obstruct personnel. and, in fact, that is exactly what they do. The Fuel Air Explosive Weapon. In military parlance the FAEW, is a cluster bomb, which when it explodes, sends out a massive shock wave that destroys both people and vegetation. In October 1972, an Air Force officer told the American Ordnance Association. "You may have seen some of the pictures of the sheep that were in the foxholes when the FAEWs hit and it didn't do their innards Any good." The officer might...
...Carpenter Center Students' Association has brought together an intriguing cluster of work; with any uck, it should provide the impetus for more frequent glimpses of their art in the future...
Such are the New Hebrides, a tranquil cluster of 72 islands some 1,000 miles east of Australia. There are no taxes and no newspapers, and only five miles of paved roads on the entire archipelago. Telephone service to the outside world shuts down entirely for two days a week, and the flight-departure board at the main airport often lists the time of Air Pacific's next scheduled flight as "soon as possible." Despite the many things they do not have, however, the New Hebrides have, in effect, two governments, for they are the world's only...
...double helix of the heredity molecule DNA. The signal was transmitted last week by a team of U.S. scientists from the giant radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a vast antenna 1,000 ft. in diameter lining a natural bowl formed by hills. The target was Messier 13, a cluster of some 300,000 stars located on the remote fringe of the Milky Way. Addressed simply to "Occupants" of any planets that may be orbiting Messier 13's stars, the message, even traveling as it does at the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.), will not reach...
...estimate the size of the discovery, with no help from Mexican officials, who insist that they just do not know. Some skeptics place the reserves as low as 1 billion bbl., which would have significance only to Mexico. But other estimates, including the one now accepted in Washington, cluster around 15 billion bbl. If that figure proves to be correct, it would rank Mexico in about the same class as Nigeria among the heavyweights of world...