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...team's mind when it faces the top-ranked team in the country, and correcting mistakes is usually an afterthought. But the Crimson stuck to its game plan of setting up a double hole on offense, passing more accurately, working together on defense and containing San Diego's lethal fast break...
...heat of such boiling hatreds, it is hard to sustain any notion of the university as a protected enclave devoted to opening minds and nurturing tolerance. Instead, many campuses seem to distill the free-floating bigotries of American society into a lethal brew. Since 1986, according to the Baltimore-based National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence, more than 250 colleges and universities, including top schools such as Brown, Smith and Stanford, have reported racist incidents ranging from swastikas painted on the walls to violent attacks and death threats...
Soviet newspapers and magazines are publishing details about life in the U.S.S.R. that once would have crowned a CIA officer's career. Czechoslovakia's President, Vaclav Havel, discloses how much Semtex, a lethal plastic explosive, Prague has sold to Libya over the years (1,000 tons), while East Germany disbands its dreaded secret police. Soviet and other East bloc officials are still trying to sponge up information from the West, but they have widened their scope and deepened their activities; as Moscow tries to pump up perestroika with the technology and expertise of the West, its agents are busier than...
...based Occidental Chemical Corp. -- are taking the high moral ground against the U.S. Government by refusing to sell an ingredient necessary to produce a poison gas. The chemical is thionyl chloride, which is used in pesticides and plastics, but is also needed by the Army to make sarin, a lethal nerve agent...
Smaller than a soda can and with a sticker price of about $200, a capacitor hardly appears lethal. Its industrial applications range from use in copier machines to air-conditioning units to aerospace equipment. But take a highly miniaturized capacitor capable of storing 5,000 volts, feed it into a peanut- size switch called a krytron, and the result is a device that can be used for the deadliest purpose of all: triggering a nuclear explosion...