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...Built in the 1950s, the DEW line radars are now virtual museum pieces. In their place, the U.S. and Canada will install 13 manned long-range radar stations and 39 automated short-range radars capable of detecting and tracking a new generation of low-flying Soviet bombers and even newer Soviet cruise missiles. The project, known as the North Warning System, is part of a more than $5 billion U.S. plan to modernize northern air defenses and safeguard the continent against attacks launched over the North Pole...
...world that did not require the answer: "The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo"? The people of Sarajevo have nonetheless stoically retained their fierce pride in a history rich--that is to say complicated--enough to explain even Princip. It is good, however, to have newer memories, though even recollections of the 1984 Winter Olympics touch on the subject of Princip...
...authorities spend a good deal of their $1 billion annual budget in supporting all the talk. During the 1954 conference on the French withdrawal from Indochina, when no hotel wanted to house the Soviet delegation, the city actually bought the lakeside Metropole Hotel to accommodate it. Some of the newer hotels have become conference sites on their own. The Intercontinental, a sort of nouveau Kuwait-style palace where Secre
Some of the newer workout tapes seem interested less in fitness than in showing off their star's physical endowments. Sandahl Bergman's Body, billed as a "video workout combining fitness with the art of dance," is long on arty camera angles and short on guidance. And in the Solid Gold 5 Day Workout, dancers cavort in a series of seemingly random maneuvers that are nearly impossible to follow...
...cost of such humanization can be considerable: for example, a very nice but unexceptional Patek from the 1930s may start at $1,700. Fanatics point out that newer models are not only much more costly (the least expensive contemporary gold Patek retails in the neighborhood of $3,950) but, as a rule, are much less interestingly styled. "I respect the old watches for design, form and their personality and character," says Unger. "They all have individuality, just like the people who choose them." They can also have repair problems. Unger, like many other dealers, gives a year's guarantee...