Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hersh's story is Kevin Mulcahy, 38, a former computer and communications expert for the CIA. He left the agency in 1968, worked in electronics and computers, overcame a struggle with alcoholism, and in 1976 was coaxed into the business of exporting high-speed communications and computer gear. His scheming partners in InterTechnology, Inc., were two former CIA undercover agents: Edwin P. Wilson, 52, who had helped to organize the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, and Frank E. Terpil, 41, who had worked overseas for the agency as a communications technician. Wilson, known...
...first day, Adler is somewhat unsatisfied. Only half a dozen students have regularly been involved in the discussion. Overnight he devises a trick to pull the others in. His solution is ROBERT BURGESS a familiar piece of pedagogical gear: a blackboard diagram. The way Adler uses it, however, would make less self-confident teachers quail. For his goal, it turns out, is not to illustrate a point but to start an argument. To do so, Adler returns to Garrick's first question, but adds a new twist. The blackboard diagram contains conflicting statements about the nature of beauty. Position...
...earth in 1979, Salyut was durable and highly innovative in design. Among its technological features were two docking ports (to receive visiting spacecraft, including a new class of fully automated, unmanned supply ship) and large, winglike solar panels (to convert sunlight into electricity). Salyut carried myriad scientific and observational gear, notably a multi-spectral camera, telescopes for scanning the heavens, kilns for processing materials in zero-g atmosphere, even a small garden for growing plants in orbit...
With a phone in place, GOOD started to gear up for GLAD Day that spring. It collected funds from the Houses, and rented out the film. "The World is Out," an award-winning documentary with interviews from gay men and women around the nation...
...against the smugglers, the odds are against Murtagh and his men. "The druggers have very good equipment for pinpointing our presence," says Murtagh. For every ship like Dauntless, the drug runners have a flotilla. Moreover, Dauntless has nothing to match the sophisticated satellite navigational gear routinely found on the smugglers' ships. "Even before we begin," Murtagh says, "I assume they are tracking...