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WORKING in Washington as a reporter and writer for a daily newspaper, I was assigned a story about Newsweek revealing that Lt. Col. Oliver North was a confidential source in a 1985 Achille Lauro story. When I accepted the internship, I knew my politics did not mesh with the conservative agenda of the paper, but I was confident I would not be put in a situation in which our values would clash...
...clay banks from the relentlessly lapping waters. To protect the transplants until they take hold, conservationists have jury-rigged a protective barrier of old Air Force parachutes in the water to absorb and attenuate the force of the waves. Harry Cook, a Texas shrimper, is considering wire mesh and old tires to keep the bay waters from chewing away any more of his bluffs, which he is losing at the rate of 10 ft. yearly. On Long Island, beach residents shore up dunes with driftwood and old tires. And in Carlsbad, Calif., the community has come up with a number...
...afford to drive to low-paying suburban jobs, and public transportation in most of the megacounties ranges from poor to nonexistent. In Fairfield County, traveling the 20 miles from Shelton to Norwalk means taking seven different buses and paying 75 cents on each; besides that, the schedules rarely mesh...
...late 70's. the White Sox switched from its traditional pinstriped uniform to strange mesh uniforms designed to make fans remember the era of Nap Lajoie. The uniforms themselves were pre-20th century in style. The sleeves would flail in the wind like tattered flags, much like the tattered White Sox fielders...
...long time American experts have worried about mysterious low-level microwaves that have apparently been beamed at the embassy building. One explanation involves a possible type of snooping that does not require hidden transmitters in the building. Mysterious cavities along with configurations of steel rods and wire mesh have been found in the walls of the new embassy complex. It is theoretically possible that the microwaves could somehow pick up the reverberations that emanate from within the walls of a building; a computer would then analyze those reverberations...