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Saddam Hussein may have engineered the spill to foil any allied plans for an amphibious invasion, but he was also probably trying to shut down seaside desalination plants that provide much of the fresh water for Saudi Arabia's Eastern province. Another target may have been Saudi power stations and oil refineries, which rely on seawater for cooling. Saddam's action will not prevent an invasion, says the Pentagon, but temporary shutdowns of plants and refineries seem inevitable...
...still too early to say whether the Pentagon's grand doctrine of fighting superior numbers with superior technology will ultimately prevail. It may yet be possible to foil the world's most sophisticated -- and expensive -- weapons with countermeasures, some of which are literally dirt cheap. They include burning smoke pots to deflect heat-seeking missiles, draping targets with pictures of bomb craters to discourage further attack, and hunkering down in caves and sand dunes to wait out the blitz. In the end, no electronic marvel is going to liberate Kuwait. That is a job that will probably fall...
...just do it" is what Bud Lite is asking this rookie quarterback to do Sunday in its attempt to foil Budweiser's dreams of a three-peat as Bud Bowl champion...
Harvard Coach Ronn Tommassoni didn't even want to talk about Coles after Saturday's game. Coles, a brutish, physical forward who tradionally has been among the league's leaders in penalty minutes, is the perfect foil to the wide-open Tommasoni-esque brand of hockey...
Their work closely paralleled the discovery of atomic nuclei. In 1910, Ernest Rutherford fired alpha particles (fragments of helium atoms) at targets of gold foil. Most passed through, but some bounced back, making it clear that there were dense concentrations of matter within the foil. In the Stanford experiments, electrons were fired at protons and neutrons. The way the electrons bounced off these particles showed that the latter were not uniformly dense but made up of tiny concentrations of matter -- the quarks...