Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general, Abdul Raman Berdabali, 47, looking like a bird of prey. "Oh, yes," he says, pointing to a heap of seven land mines sitting next to his sleeping mat, "there are plenty of mines about. They are plastic, which makes them hard to detect." Under his watchful eye, everyone devours trays of boiled mutton covered with flies. Again, all eat together. "Even Camarade Habré ate from the same plate with us when he came to visit," the commander says...
...intriguing, enervating and slightly intoxicating business. It can get all tangled up between low math, high fashion and rude stereotyping that becomes a way to identify-indeed, codify-the store's clientele. Bloomingdale's, launching a new addition in southwest Miami this August, is keeping its collective eye on the demographics. "We realize there is a very large Spanish-speaking population, from either Cuba or South American countries," says Bloomingdale's Vice President Kal Ruttenstein. His new store will attempt to appeal with "clothes that might be a little different in coloration-a little more vibrant...
...Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is drawing up plans for an unprecedented set of six telescopes designed to record radiation waves not visible to the human eye. If the project gets center approval and its backers can drum up the necessary federal funding, the telescopes, expected to cost about $20 million, would be the first of their kind...
...objects emit radiation, but not all radiation is visible, and sub-millimeter waves cannot be seen with the naked eye. Moreover, sub-millimeter waves do not even reach Earth because they are absorbed by water vapor in the atmosphere...
...there's certainly more that's strange here than meets the eye. First of all, Goldwater: why did he allow the CIA to postpone meetings on two different occasions and then not focus debate in the March 8 meeting on the mining issue, which must have been in his newspaper by then? Why, further, has Senator Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) resigned in protest at not having been told about the mining? Such a resignation hardly seems an apt way to protest failure on the part of a subsidiary body to conform to rules set for it. But strangest...