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Males have paired sex organs--each called a hemipenis, or half penis--hidden in the base of the tail. Some species, such as common king snakes, deploy these alternatively in successive matings--perhaps, says Greene, to allow more frequent copulation. When Borneo's yellow-lipped sea- kraits breed, as many as half a dozen males may pile on a lone female. Copulation is usually brief but can last more than a day for Western diamondbacks (probably to reduce the female's exposure to rival males). Female snakes too deploy cunning reproductive strategies. North American pit vipers, for example, store sperm...
Back in 1995, then Defense Secretary WILLIAM PERRY said building the shield would take three years of research and development and another three of construction. The shield, he vowed, "will be ready for production in three years and, if the decision is made, could be ready for deployment three years after that." Summing up, he added, "So we are about...six years away from deployment of national missile-defense systems." After a year, Perry said the U.S. was still six years away from a national missile umbrella. "Our plan is to complete the development of a national missile-defense system...
Last week an Army general said--you guessed it--the same thing. "Our first opportunity to make a decision to deploy is in the year 2000," said Army Brigadier General JOSEPH COSUMANO, head of the Pentagon's national missile-defense program. It will take another three years, he added, to actually build it. The Pentagon will have what Cosumano called "a rolling three-year deployment capability" to delay deployment into the future. That adds up to--well, who's counting...
...must shortly be sent to Princeton. He names it Yonder (that's the easy part), learns to hoist anchor, percolate about the harbor, and dock again. Also to sail a bit, and what to do when the diesel fails: call for a tow, then call the diesel wizard, then deploy checkbook. After several seasons of costly maintenance, Coomer's master shipwright assumes a long face, reports rot and says the author had better decide how much he loves the boat...
...binding treaty that gives Moscow a veto over NATO expansion, may mean NATO leaders will call the Russian President on the carpet at the signing ceremony in Paris on May 27. Despite NATO?s hot denials, Yeltsin continues to insist that NATO has agreed it will never deploy nuclear or conventional forces on the territory of new East European members. "He's upsetting not only NATO members, but prospective members, because he's making it sound as if Eastern European countries would be second-class members, as if Russia has veto power over the conditions of their participation," says Nelan...