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But Ptacek kept Challenger airborne an extra 23 minutes to let photographers land first, be cleared by startled customs agents, and get into position to record what turned out to be a perfect landing. Ptacek, gorging on chocolate mousse from R.A.F. chefs, said: "It was a real experience for someone...
Despite all this lethal ingenuity, the only really good news from the bug battlefront is that most healthy trees can survive two or three onslaughts. Indeed, foresters like to point out that the moths often strengthen the woodland by eliminating sickly specimens. But such Darwinian reassurances are little comfort to...
An enterprising 19th century Corsican named Angelo Mariani had the notion of blending the coca leaf with fine wine, which he marketed under the name of Vin Mariani. Mariani collected endorsements from Popes Leo XIII and Pius X, President McKinley and the Kings of Spain, Greece, and Norway and Sweden...
By today's superpower standards, a Nagasaki-type bomb would be puny-the equivalent of a mere 10,000 tons of TNT. But that might be more than enough to terrorize an enemy, or crush a nonnuclear neighbor. -By Frederic Golden
-By Frederic Golden. Reported by Joseph Pitcher/Los Angeles