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...South Pacific expected to be held in October. In a sharply worded statement immediately following the ship's departure, Mitterrand vowed to continue testing in the area and to repel all protests "by force if necessary." Greenpeace officials have said that the group would abide by the twelve-mile barrier imposed by France, but New Zealand's Lange was dismayed by the warning. The threat, he said, "reflects the consistent ly insensitive attitude of the French...
...booth of a company called Intellicorp, engineers from Ford Aerospace were showing off a program for troubleshooting balky satellites. At the Apollo Computer display, a firm called Visual Intelligence had a system to help nuclear-plant operators quickly interpret the kind of instrument readings that confused technicians at Three Mile Island. On a Digital Equipment computer, newspaper specialists from Composition Systems exhibited a program that lets editors accommodate late- breaking news by reducing from hours to minutes the time it takes to lay out and print a new edition...
...began when a bunch of jocks in Hawaii fell to arguing about which was the tougher sport, biking, running or swimming. Out of the quarrel was born the first Ironman Triathlon: 15 seemingly crackbrained humans on a 2.4-mile ocean swim followed by a 112-mile bike race followed by a 26.2-mile marathon run. That was in 1978. This year, with the distances in many cases shortened to a so-called tinman's grasp, 1.2 million Americans are expected to take part in 2,100 triathlons. The event is being called the fastest-growing participatory sport in the nation...
...Chicago, the course put the contestants in nine-tenths of a mile of Lake Michigan, and had them biking 24.8 miles and running 6.2. The race was to start at 7:30 a.m., but the tick-tick-tick of the ten-speeds had already started in the dark two hours before angry black clouds roiled over the city's big shoulder, releasing heavy rains twice...
...released last year, Cambridge's Scientific Advisory Board told city officials that ADL's laboratories might contain up to 300,000 lethal doses at any given time. Experts on the panel predicted that if the worst-possible accident occurred, the gases could kill 30-40 persons within a one-mile radius of the facility...