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Heisenberg, who headed the Max Planck Institute after the war and remained active until his death in 1976, may have given his own answer on the day he learned of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In a remark picked up by a hidden British microphone, he said he and his team had not had the "moral courage" to ask for the thousands of workers and huge resources that would have been necessary. The price of failure would have been high for all of them...
...live in these makeshift tent cities, according to estimates by Dade County officials. Mike Anelli, a 28-year-old carpenter from New Jersey who has set up camp near the destroyed Homestead Air Force Base, says he wakes nightly to the sound of gunfire. "It's like a Mad Max movie after a nuclear war, what with the fires at night, the rusted heaps of cars and all the fighting here," he says...
Without savings to go home, the workers are stuck living in conditions reminiscent of The Grapes of Wrath. Douglas Davis, a 35-year-old carpenter from Pennsylvania, is living in his aging Scout van at Camp Mad Max because he can't afford a hotel. Thieves have taken his car battery, his radio, his tools, even his Penn State floor mats. His body is covered with infected mosquito bites. On his back, an antibiotic cream covers a patch of ringworm. ; Asked if he has seen a doctor, he says he cured himself by "sanding" down the skin and washing...
...means just one thing to his new neighbors: he must be a burglar. So as the local sheriff (Dabney Coleman) besieges Andrew's house, AMOS & ANDREW form an alliance, at first mutually suspicious, then mutually instructive, aimed at getting them both back to the mainland unscathed. Writer-director E. Max Frye doesn't quite know how to end his comedy, but his actors know how to play it. The result is energetic, affable, occasionally shrewd social satire...
...troops to Bosnia for any purpose. Military planners say they are examining contingencies for using American air power to enforce a no-fly order over Bosnia if the Security Council ever orders it and to "reinvigorate" relief efforts by flying air cover for truck convoys. "But that's it, max!" says a defense official...