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...police the weapon has proved so durable that the Army still draws upon its cache of 1.9 million .45s bought by the end of World War II. The Pentagon has decided to switch to the 9-mm because it will use ammunition standard among other NATO countries, will be lighter (roughly 2½ lbs.) than the .45 and pack nearly the same wallop. One other attraction cited by the Pentagon: the 9-mm will be "easier for women to deal with." The .45, which cost $25 in 1911, sold for $45 during World War II. Since the 9-mm model...
...like pupae, to emerge a week or two later as full-grown moths. Gypsy moths themselves do not eat. But each female lays velvety, tan masses of 100 to 1,000 eggs on tree trunks and buildings, on the undersides of cars, trucks and trailers, in carefully stacked woodpiles. Lighter colored and larger than the male, the female does not fly but attracts the male with a powerful chemical sex lure. By August both parents will have died, but the hardy eggs will survive through the winter, hatching in the spring and starting anew the devastating cycle...
When Leonard and Hearns meet on September 16, Ray will be lighter, and presumably his usual fast self. Foot speed won't be enough, though, and Hearns should dominate the fight...
...retain trained personnel, old theories are being ripped open and debated. Colorado Democrat Gary Hart belongs to a new cadre of efficiency-minded defense experts in the Senate, along with Georgia's Sam Nunn and Bill Cohen of Maine. Hart wants Lehman to think more of smaller, lighter submarines and smaller aircraft carriers for more flexibility and adaptability. Lehman works in a three-dimensional world where time, cost and efficiency so far dictate that big carriers and newly armed battleships (plus current submarines and other surface ships) imaginatively employed can make the Soviet Union a world island. But Lehman...
...glory of God in stone, with each individual stone serving as the unique calling card of the mason who finishes it and sets it in place. The architectural reach toward heaven drove men to build ever higher, to put in larger and larger windows, to shape cathedrals of lighter and lighter stone until, at places like Beauvais and Amiens, cathedrals seemed to be made of wind and glass...