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...letter bombs mailed to Israeli officials on four continents last week were far more sophisticated, difficult to detect and dangerous for even an expert to make. In some of those intercepted and analyzed, the explosive was a powder, probably TNT; in others the charges were two thin strips of plastique explosive scarcely five inches long. Developed in World War II, plastique is a mixture of Hexogen, TNT and rubber compound that can be molded into any shape and is safe and stable until detonated. It can even be rolled sheet-thin to look like typewriter paper, written on, rolled...
...Hanoi had greatly increased the sophistication of its air defenses. For years Hanoi had utilized -in addition to the SAM-linked radar -a countrywide Ground Clearance Intercept system similar to U.S. commercial radar for ground control of aircraft. At the time of his command, U.S. planes could detect the local SAM radar, but few if any were equipped to detect tracking by the GCI radar system (most are now). In any case, if that radar was working properly, most U.S. planes would be picked up and monitored long before crossing the DMZ. Beginning in mid-December 1971, Hanoi "netted" this...
Studying this phenomenon, the biochemists decided to expose their subjects to two quite different environments in rapid succession. So complete was the changeover (accomplished in less than a second by a high-speed laboratory mixer) that the primitive bacteria should not have been able to detect the switch in surroundings. Yet, surprisingly, the bacteria were not fooled. Shifted from a highly favorable environment to a less desirable one, they began to tumble about in a wildly agitated way, apparently in search of those dimly remembered good surroundings. A short time later, this "memory" faded, and they resumed their normal, only...
Fieve does not claim that his hypothesis accounts for all manic-depressive illness, or that all people with the abnormal gene will develop the emotional disorder in severe form. But with the refinement of testing for abnormal genes, it may eventually be possible to detect early in life those individuals in greatest danger of developing the illness, and thus to treat them earlier and more effectively...
Experts also detect a frequent sense of shame and incompetence at not enjoying sex more. "A great many young people who come into the office these days are definitely doing it more and enjoying it less," says Psychiatrist Holmes. According to Simon and Gagnon, sexual puritanism has been replaced by sexual utopianism. "The kid who worries that he has debased himself is replaced by the kid who worries that he isn't making sex a spectacular event...