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...late." Seconds later the missile slammed into the ship. The warhead exploded in the officers' quarters of the vessel, which two days earlier had left behind its escort of U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf and sailed into Kuwaiti waters to load up with refined-petroleum products. Eighteen crew members were injured, including the American captain and radioman...
...scientists trust them? How do they assess their accuracy? "You compare them with reality," explains Princeton Climatologist Syukuro Manabe. "How well do they reproduce the movement of the jet stream, the geographical and seasonal distribution of rainfall and temperature? You can also reproduce climate changes from the past. Eighteen thousand years ago, there was a massive continental ice sheet. Given the conditions that we know existed, can we reproduce accurately the distribution of sea-surface temperatures then? The answer is, We can do this very well. It gives you some confidence." Large-scale phenomena can be modeled more easily than...
...Still, we're really excited about the returning group," Kingston added. "Eighteen of the top 24 players from last year return and that gives us a good core of experience. This could be a very good year...
...Eighteen as of June 14, Graf says, "I was never somebody who watched tennis, women's tennis -- no way." She loved only to play, from infancy almost. "Every day," Peter Graf says, "there she was, waiting for me at the door. 'Please play with me, Papa.' Not four years old." Amazed that she had enough wrist strength for a real grip, Graf gave her a few pointers and then set her loose on the house. "One or two days later," he says, "all the lamps were gone...
...Eighteen members of the Crimson squad traveled to the Sunshine State for a week of training, and participated in a tournament at the Hall of Fame Pool. Harvard dropped a pair of contests to the Ft. Lauderdale "B" team, but racked up two victories over the city's "A" club. The Crimson went on to edge a squad from Cooper City in its final contest...