Word: elements
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Moscow nabbed two thieves who were about to make off with 21 pounds of plutonium from a nuclear complex in central Russia. The non-weapons grade element can be used to make fuel for nuclear power plants. The arrests were the latest in a series of cases involving theft of nuke material from Russian plants and research facilities...
...Monster" Mike Welch took the stage a little later and showed us another side to Blues. At 15 years of age, and the first artist to be signed to the House of Blues label, this boy and his band bring in the country element to Blues. With supreme guitar picking (a turquoise electrical one, no less), he whined and whimpered and returned to the loud heaviness of metal and would then continue into a more mellow sound. His repertoire was wide and varied. While well on the way to becoming a stalwart of the Blues scene, his future looks golden...
...presented. Simba's relationship with his father and the effect Mufasa's death has on the small cub is a prominent subtheme. Their bond carries even beyond death, and Simba's wish to make his father proud is a realistic drive. While the father-child relationship is a common element in Disney tales, this one is somehow much stronger, perhaps because the father is neither overly harsh (a la "The Little Mermaid") nor a bumbling fool ("Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin...
...matter which of those theories is closer to the truth, Washington loses little by pursuing any diplomatic opening. As long as Kim allows the inspectors to keep track of the fuel rods, he cannot secretly process them to obtain plutonium for more bombs. But there is a tricky time element in this approach. The rods are still highly radioactive and cannot safely be reprocessed for a month or so. If theory No. 2 is correct, that downtime allows Kim to make many generous promises for the next few weeks, then rescind them as he chooses -- perhaps including his proposal last...
...light of Pyongyang's war talk, Washington plans a series of steps aimed at cutting off the North Koreans' international trade and commercial contacts, in hopes of slowly pressuring Pyongyang to return to proper inspection. One central element will be an effort to halt transfer payments to people in the North of up to $1 billion a year from Koreans living in Japan. This is a major source of hard currency for Pyongyang, and could provoke retaliation. The more likely a sanction is to hurt the North, the more likely it could goad them into lashing back with missile bombardments...