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...vessel will be lowered gently into the waters of Monterey Bay for its maiden voyage. Named Deep Flight I, the 14-ft.-long, 2,900-lb. vehicle is shaped like a chubby, winged torpedo but flies like an underwater bird. Compared with the hard-to-maneuver submersibles that now haul deep-sea explorers sluggishly around the oceans, Deep Flight is an aquatic F-16 fighter. It can perform barrel rolls, race a fast-moving pod of whales or leap vertically right out of the sea. With a touch on the controls, a skilled pilot--who lies prone in a body...
...bring your eight million certificates of achievement or your trophy collection. Your roommates have a collection equally large, they just weren't obnoxious enough to haul it to their dorm...
...matter how marvelous such women may feel, the prevailing medical view is that most should stay on estrogen for the long haul. Unnatural as that sounds, doctors argue that life after menopause is itself somewhat unnatural. "As women have lived increasingly longer lives, they are facing problems their grandmothers never faced," says Dr. Charles Hammond, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University Medical Center. "At the turn of the century, women died soon after their ovaries quit." Now they live to face heart disease, osteoporosis, increased fractures -- problems that may be prevented in part by taking estrogen...
...committed himself to a two-day trip with the troubled Paul, their ultimate destination the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown: "If your son begins suddenly to fall at a headlong rate, you must through the agency of love and greater age throw him a line and haul him back...
...raid by the county's Asian Crime Task Force at the house and at a nearby printshop turned up the largest cache of illegal software ever discovered in the U.S., worth nearly $13 million at retail prices. By week's end investigators were still tallying the haul -- all Microsoft products, including the operating system called DOS 6.2 as well as the helper programs Windows and Windows for Workgroups. In March a similar raid in the same neighborhood unearthed about $4.7 million worth of phony software plus a supply of automatic weapons...