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...lightweight automatic rifles, and articles sporting titles like "Death in the Delta." The letters columns ("Flak" and "Cuss and Discuss") carry wide-ranging opinions on men and munitions. Larry Loper, of Sugar Land, Texas, contributed the following to one discussion of the relative merits of 45s vs 9 mm ammunition. "Let's try an experiment," Loper suggests. "Lie flat on your back on a bench or table. Have a friend--or enemy--take a baseball bat and slam it into your gut with all the force he can. Your skin remains unbroken and there is no wound...
...largest ships in the Bahama defense force fleet, as it was towing two Cuban fishing boats that had been seized for poaching stone crab and conch near the tiny, uninhabited Bahamian island of Santo Domingo Cay. The two jets raked the lightly armed Flamingo with 23-mm cannons, then returned 45 minutes later and sank the vessel with two rocket salvos. As the Bahamian sailors bobbed helplessly in the water, the MiGs roared in low and strafed them. Four of the 19 Flamingo crewmen were missing...
...once more sophisticated tests were completed, it became evident how badly cancer had invaded the Shah's body. While his temperature hovered around 101° F, his blood platelets, the tiny bodies responsible for clotting, had diminished precipitously to 20,000 per cu. mm instead of a normal 250,000. Nurses hurriedly rounded up donors of the relatively rare B-negative blood type. The hectic search yielded 15 liters (about 32 pints) of blood necessary for an operation to excise the spleen: according to his Egyptian doctors, the organ had grown so bloated by midweek that there...
...abdomen, they insert into the uterus and the amniotic sac a pencil-lead-thin tube containing an endoscope with fiber-optic bundles that transmit light. This enables the physicians to see tiny areas of the fetus. By inserting biopsy forceps into the tube, doctors can take a 1-mm (.04 in.) skin sample from the fetus. They prefer to excise it from the head, where there are no major blood vessels or nerves and the skull provides a firm surface for their work. To draw a blood sample, the doctor inserts a needle through the tube and punctures...
Polavision was not the company's only source of troubles. Amid declining film sales, earnings last year plunged by 70% to $36.1 million. Younger photographers often prefer the new, easy-to-use 35-mm cameras like the Pentax ME and the Canon AE1 over instant cameras. Polaroid has also found market resistance to the high initial cost of its film, now about 60? per picture...