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...subject as technical and globally dangerous as nuclear war, it borders on demagoguery to offer, in referendum form, one simple solution to the problem. To argue, as one supporter did, that a freeze "is easily verifiable, because you can always detect zero," reflects an ignorance or a confidence inappropriate for the matter. Such arguments take advantage of gut-level fears and channel them towards superficially appealing solutions...
...gunmen agreed to a 48-hour extension of their deadline and to the release of five more hostages. Some 30 hours after the initial occupation, the gunmen discovered a Polish military attaché, Zygmunt Dobruszewski, hiding in an embassy annex. Wysocki and his friends also failed entirely to detect the presence of Polish Attaché Jozef Matusiak, who was concealed in an attic. Eventually, Matusiak managed to crawl through a window onto the shingled embassy roof, and Swiss commandos standing by with ladders hauled him to safety...
...officer and a gentleman." He enrolls in Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School, a form of organized flagellation that we are led to believe makes all other brands of basic training look like the vicar's lawn party. Underneath Zack's sullen exterior, the discerning eye can detect "the right stuff," as it were. The discerning eye in this case belongs to a black drill sergeant, played with malevolent high spirits by Louis Gossett Jr. Of course, Zack's spirit will first have to be broken, a process Gossett undertakes with relish. Then too Zack will have...
...passes unaltered out of the body. In the Cincinnati study, ten chronically obese patients were fed a diet much like their usual one for 20 days and, for another 20-day period, the same diet with SPE replacing about 540 daily calories of fat. Subjects were unable to detect any difference in the taste of the food, and did not attempt to compensate for lost calories by snacking more. They lost an average of 8 Ibs. during their time on the SPE diet, and, as a bonus, their serum cholesterol levels dropped 10%. How soon will SPE be on your...
...week, trying to do the quad ten or 15 times each session. Most of the attempts are recorded on video tape, and when the acrobats are through, they watch what they have just done. Like football players after the game, they study their movements so that they can detect split-second errors in timing. They actually have six practice quads on tape, but the only stunts that are officially counted are those before a paying audience...