Word: magnetic
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Founded after the Civil War by a Union general as a refined refuge for the well-heeled, Colorado Springs (pop. 259,000) has long enticed tourists with attractions like Pikes Peak Highway and the elegant Broadmoor Hotel. But in more recent years it has become a magnet for military installations. To the east of the city is Peterson Air Force Base; to the north is the U.S. Air Force Academy; to the south is the Army's Fort Carson; and buried deep in Cheyenne Mountain to the southwest, shielded behind 25-ton doors, is the North American Aerospace Defense Command...
...moment, the report notes, some of the missiles can be easily seen through cyclone fencing, making them a magnet for antinuclear demonstrators and a target for terrorists. (The weapons' nuclear warheads are housed separately in concrete bunkers with special security precautions.) The Army wants the money for "metal and concrete fences, which are intended to shield the day-to-day activities of the Pershing unit from outside observation." The proposal is finding a receptive audience in Congress. "No problem at all," said Republican Senator Mack Mattingly of Georgia, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee on military construction. "In fact...
Recently, however, Mr. Moynihan voted for a bill providing that grants for magnet schools may not be used for "courses of instruction the substance of which is secular humanism." It is clear that he read the bill, because he defended his vote as "the price I had to pay to get school desegregation money." But, though he read it, he apparently didn't understand it. According to a report in the Times (February 22), Mr. Moynihan said. "I have no idea what secular humanism is. No one knows...
Then, having smacked his lips with gusto as if anticipating a tasty meal, he predicted, "Castro will have to gravitate to us like an iron filing to a magnet...
...such program currently embroiled in controversy, however, is the city's computer magnet school, the so-called "school of the future," which opened last year without computer hardware...