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...main advantage will be that hundreds of digital images can be stored on an optical disk and sorted in a flash. They can be recopied endlessly, each new image a perfect replica of the old. They can be transmitted anywhere in the world at nearly the speed of light. And they can be called to a computer screen and cropped, tinted, sharpened or shaded on the fly, giving photo editors at their workstations a taste of the power that writers sitting at their word processors have enjoyed for years...
...skinhead's T shirt says SMILE -- IT'S THE APOCALYPSE. And judging from the scene around him, maybe it is. Several hundred young hedonists join him in dancing wild tribal stomps as strobe lights flash and 50,000 watts of techno- house music blast from the speakers of a New York City nightclub called the Shelter. On the fringes, others watch an upside-down projection of Flintstones % cartoons or sidle up to the nonalcoholic "smart bar" for bottled water or vitamin-enriched fruit juice. "It's a good crowd tonight," observes Moby, a techno deejay with a loyal following...
...nuclear assault. On board their helicopters, they packed decontamination kits as well as crowbars and acetylene torches to break through the walls of the presidential bunker buried beneath the White House. They flew practice runs with their dark visors lowered to shield their eyes from the A-bomb's flash, and were dressed from head to toe in 20 lbs. of protective clothing -- boots, gloves and rubber bodysuits impregnated with lead to block out the radiation. They carried extra radiation suits in canvas bags for the President and First Family. If the pilots could not reach the bunker through...
...cards with instructions on what to do in the event of an attack. Backyard bomb shelters were common. Senior Washington officials received an emergency telephone number that bypassed the commercial system and linked them directly to crisis operators, who understood that if the caller uttered the single code word -- FLASH -- it meant the call was "essential to national survival." Never out of the President's reach were the Presidential Emergency Action Documents and "Plan D," his options for responding to a surprise nuclear attack...
...asked how it was possible to succeed amid the chaos of the former Soviet ( Union. "We were preparing in the worst conditions ever," agreed the curly- locked machinist's son. "But that did not do us any harm. On the contrary, it made us more aggressive." With a flash of bravado, he added, "If the American team wants to win more medals, we say to them, 'Come and train in Russia...