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...were safe until 1986, but a '93 Army report suggests the danger zone could be reached in 1997. Several years ago, the Army simulated a single auto-ignition using real rockets filled with fake sarin. The weapons close to the smoldering rocket exploded, blowing the heavy door off the igloo and allowing rockets to fly out, spewing fake sarin into the air. Inside the igloo, rockets kept detonating with dull thuds. A typical igloo contains 4,000 M-55s, each with a seven-mile range and 20 tons of sarin. (A pinpoint dose is enough to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROTTING ROCKETS | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...gift of life is never meant to be returned, especially not wrapped in plastic, packed in ice and enclosed in a small Igloo cooler. But that is precisely the transaction that occurred last week at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, where doctors took the heart of a 22-year-old who died following a car crash and sewed it inside the body of her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Daughter's Last Gift | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...Igloo faithful that had already purchased full-price tickets are crying foul, and deservedly so. But shame on the citizens of the Steel City, who in the past routinely left empty seats for the good postseason baseball action of their Pirates. And now, for the winners of two of the last three Stanley Cups...pass me a Rolling Rock while I stop to ponder this...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Sabres And Sinners | 4/19/1994 | See Source »

...addition, Johnston says her family is taking extra precautions to prepare for an uncertain future. "We are putting an extra layer of ice covering on our igloo and we are teaching our polar bear how to attack on the word 'kill,' Johnston says...

Author: By Alberta Laktonen, | Title: Better Dead Than Red? | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...Lemieux's return to hockey. The heir to the Great One met his biggest challenge. In the midst of his greatest season, on pace to break Gretzky's single season scoring record, Lemieux was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. But just six weeks later he was back on the Igloo ice in Pittsburgh, and he scored a goal. Lemieux went on to win the scoring title, garner some more personal awards, and add thousands to his fan club...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Ten Great Moments from '93 | 1/12/1994 | See Source »

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