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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GATOR BOMBS. A version of cluster bombs, they explode in midair, scattering small, hard-to-detect mines over a region as large as 90,000 sq. yds. Under normal conditions, a soldier might be able to sidestep these explosives, but in the heat of battle, there is a tendency to leap without looking. The gator bomb thus can create panic among the enemy...
...biggest uncertainties before the war started was how the Patriot system would fare. The antimissile missile is guided by a sophisticated phased-array radar consisting of more than 5,000 radar antenna elements that can detect and track 100 targets at a time and follow any given one far more rapidly than the rotating cone of conventional radar. But the system had never been tested against a Scud...
That is not an easy task even for the most technologically sophisticated nation. A modern assault -- and the one on Iraq appears to have followed this pattern -- begins with an attack on the enemy's air-defense capabilities. Ground-hugging cruise missiles, flying too low for radar to detect easily, hit targets initially judged too dangerous for manned aircraft to handle. In the assault on Baghdad, some of the first blows came from Tomahawk cruise missiles fired by ships far out in the Persian Gulf. As the first explosions rocked the city, Iraqi antiaircraft fire was directed into...
...jumping for joy, in high hopes that better testing and closer monitoring would follow the Johnson incident at Seoul," says Dr. Robert Voy, former chief medical officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee. "But looking back today, I see that almost nothing has been done." Moreover, efforts to detect steroid use face formidable difficulties. Warns National Collegiate Athletic Association drug tester Frank Uryasz: "Drug testing in this country is in its infancy...
...says Charles Yesalis, a Penn State University professor and steroid expert. "It's not even a close fight." Some athletes use so-called masking agents, chemicals that muddle test results to conceal steroid use. Others have turned from synthetic substances to human-growth hormone, which is virtually impossible to detect. Some have retained private labs to help them cheat...