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Although the report contains no startling disclosures, in its breadth of detail it is convincing-and even frightening. There are illustrations-drawn in rather crude Flash Gordon style from satellite photos-of the new 25,000-ton Typhoon missile submarine, an SS-20 launch site, the experimental T-80 tank and surface-to-air laser weapons. Maps target where Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles and intermediate-range SS-20s have been placed, chart the location of Soviet divisions, and illustrate the sweep of Soviet adventurism around the globe, complete with lists of technicians and advisers stationed abroad. To bolster its point...
This Sunday's offering (Oct. 4), Why America Burns, hooks viewers early on with an indelible image: a living room transformed into an explosive fireball by a match tossed in a wastebasket. Experts call the moment of conflagration "flash-over." Most Americans have never heard the term-indeed, most people who have seen flashover are dead. Yet flashover for fun, and for profit, has become the country's favorite act of God. Every hour 300 fires break out in the U.S., killing one and disfiguring three, more than in any other industrialized country...
...situated. Mr. Blue Blazer turns out to be Mikkos Cassadine, an amuck plutocrat who means to create "a brave new world." Wants to set the planet an example of his terrible power by freezing Port Charles into submission. Confused; consult TV Guide, which verifies program is General Hospital, not Flash Gordon...
...sciences, basic research, usually done in universities, often runs five, 10 and 15 years ahead of its practical applications in industry. Some fields are so new, however, that industrial uses can be found almost as soon as theoretical advances are made. "Recombinant DNA can go immediately from a theoretical flash in a scientist's mind to the bench," Richard G. Leahy, associate dean of the Faculty for research and the allied institutions, says...
Recombinant DNA can go immediately from a theoretical flash in a scientist's mind to the bench. Richard G. Leahy, associate dean of the FacultyPhotoThe Harvard Crimson...