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Officials of the Nicaraguan military say that small unsophisticated mines have been placed in the harbors and in Lake Nicaragua, perhaps by contras operating independently of the CIA. Some are magnetic, others have acoustic triggers, and some merely float near the surface and explode on contact. "These mines are scattered indiscriminately at the entrances of ports," says one Nicaraguan officer. Unlike the large cylindrical mines, these "homemade" devices are not commercially produced. But then" manufacture indicates a relatively high level of technical sophistication. Some are disguised with a rubberized cap that makes them look like rocks...
...tropical nature, in its fleshy leafings and embowerings. The plants, or colonies, or whatever they are, ramify from narrow stems; sometimes they reverse the "normal" look of sculpture-well planted, firmly accommodating itself to its own weight-and seem to flourish in a zone of reduced gravity, where things float and spread. Always they are airy, open. In formal terms, their ancestry is constructivism, and they are part of the extended family whose American patriarch was David Smith, a fact that Graves acknowledges in giving some of her works names like Zaga, in homage to a suite of sculptures Smith...
...derisive float at last month's fifth-anniversary parade showed cartoonish effigies of Uncle Sam and a Soviet soldier struggling for control of the globe, and passengers landing at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport are still greeted by a sign that taunts, THE U.S. CANNOT DO A DAMNED THING...
...large size of the high school (2656 students registered in September) is the system's strength and its weakness. "It has a large variety of courses and lots of different kinds of people, but because the system is so large, you can lose students who will then float around for four years--it's a Catch-22 situation," Doyle says...
...Turco, O.B. Toon, T.P. Ackerman, J.B. Pollack and Carl Sagan in a study entitled "Nuclear Winter Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions" (and referred to as TTAPS after the authors names), examine a previously ignored effect of nuclear detonations: the creation of dust and soot that can float in the middle and upper atmosphere for years. Isolated detonations the only kind we have witnessed in our experience with nuclear weapons to date do not generate enough dust and soot to create any long term atmospheric changes. But any nuclear war between the superpowers is likely to involve thousands of warheads...