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...open the new van, Krauthammer holds a magnet up to a tail light, activating a door lock. The door slides open, the whole van lowers to a few centimeters off the ground, and a ramp slides into place. Krauthammer rolls his wheelchair onto the ramp and maneuvers it into the van. Once inside, his wheelchair locks into place and becomes the driver's seat. His right hand operates a horizontal steering wheel that takes almost no effort to turn; his left hand rests on a lever that activates a vacuum pump that in turn operates both the gas and brake...
...registers his complaints about Bud Bowl III's innovation despite the advantage Helmetcam will bring for his team. With Dry's ability to look away from his primary receivers before turning back and firing bullet passes, the Helmetcam should hinder only Bud and its lock-on-my-target-and-never-look-away...
...interval between August and January took on a peculiar unreality -- a psychological suspension, an air lock between Saddam's offense and the retaliation against him, between peace and war. The world went on hold. Disturbances that in other times would have riveted attention -- the Soviet crackdown in Lithuania, the fighting in Somalia -- became secondary. When violence is so elaborately laid out in advance, when it is both insistently menacing and hypothetical, it loses spontaneity. The waiting makes war seem unnatural. By last week so much premeditation had given a certain pallor to the American mood, a sense of resignation...
...last week in the controversial case of an American who "liberated" a cache of art treasures from the medieval town of Quedlinburg, where they were hidden by the SS at the end of World War II. The pieces, which include rare manuscripts and a reliquary reputed to contain a lock of hair from the head of the Virgin Mary, ended up back in G.I. Joe Meador's home in Whitewright, Texas. There they remained unnoticed until after Meador's death in 1980, when his heirs tried to sell them...
...group's health expert, or the men from public works, for example, draft their recovery plans, the first question is always, How many people are we supposed to plan for? "When the working hypothesis is 1.3 million, tops," says al-Sultan, "the answers come out in a certain way. Lock those premises in, and the shape of the society will change. Demography is everything...