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...citizens of South Florida and New Orleans should get such attention. No - sooner had HURRICANE ANDREW destroyed Homestead Air Force Base, south of Miami, than three Congressmen tried to grab its operations for their own districts. Robin Tallon of South Carolina urged the Air Force to "save money" by abandoning the Florida site and coming on up to Myrtle Beach, whose base is scheduled to close next spring. Meanwhile, Sam Gibbons of Tampa pitched McDill Air Force Base, and J. J. "Jake" Pickle of West Texas talked up the Lone Star State's Bergstrom Air Force Base...
...headed for the stalovaya or Russian style cafeteria (9 rubles for soup and meat pie). The food's edible and I knew I still had a stash of granola bars for emergencies, like lunch. I was going to live like the Russians, I told myself. I was going to grab food when I saw it. When you see any-thing that looks (and smells) edible in Russia, you buy it. It won't be there tomorrow. Or the next...
...ethnic cleansing" -- practiced by ethnic irregulars armed and supported by the Serbian government of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade -- of large swaths of Bosnian territory to expel Muslims and Croats so that Serbs may move in. Croats under the harshly nationalist leadership of President Franjo Tudjman have joined in to grab their share of territory, and Bosnian Muslims, fighting at the raw level of their rivals, are likewise guilty of barbarism -- and of inflating horror stories about the Serbs to win sympathy and support. But the Serb militiamen appear to be the worst offenders. "It is in the Serbian interest...
Holden Caulfield carried the sixties generation along by the sheer force of his subversive personality. But these are the choice-filled nineties, characterized by mallside food courts and 57 channels on the cable box. Personality turns our heads, but Tyler needs a little more than charisma to grab our attention for good...
...other system is anaerobic, in which muscles use reactions that do not depend on oxygen to produce energy from carbohydrates and other chemicals stored in the muscle. Sprinters -- as well as nonathletes dashing from the shower to grab a ringing phone -- rely to a large extent on this system, which provides lots of quick power but can operate for only a short time. The reasons: depletion of the necessary chemicals and buildup of a chemical by- product called lactic acid, which inhibits muscle contraction. Middle- distance athletes depend on a delicate balance of both aerobic and anaerobic systems...