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...gigantic yo-yo consists of a platform weighing more than a ton and hanging under the side of the balloon, an eight-mile cable and a 130-pound "monkey...
Olympics' Last Mile...
...assembling the components in Mexico rather than in the U.S. just a few miles away, Honeywell saves about 50% on production costs. That kind of bargain is creating a manufacturing boom along the 2,000-mile Mexican-U.S. border and is also boosting the ailing Mexican economy. Like Detroit's automakers, who are moving an increasing amount of production to foreign countries, many other manufacturers are also building factories outside the U.S. More than 600 assembly plants have been lured to the Mexican border region to produce everything from electronic components to clothing...
...near the border between East and West Germany, life in uniform has never been easy. Most towns in the area are small, provincial and often dull. East German and Soviet border patrols are a constant presence. Above all, the American servicemen at Fulda are aware that the 30-mile gap is a likely invasion route in the event of a conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...them) perfectly suited to our athletic abilities. It was only a question of knowing-that if she had picked up a javelin, say, just by chance, and thrown it, through some perfect and startling alchemic convulsion of muscles the thing would have sailed a quarter of a mile. Astonished observers in Central Park-the kind of place one would find a javelin or two lying around untended-would ask to see it done again. Why not? After a few more titanic tosses, just to show a fluke was not involved, a phone call to a proper authority, a member...