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...next two years, he remembers, some 15 to 20 prisoners were trucked every Wednesday to the Buenos Aires airport, put on a military plane, and then dropped, drugged but alive, from a height of about 13,000 ft. into the Atlantic Ocean...
Hart Nautical Gallery. 55 Mass Ave., M.I.T., Cambridge. 253-5943. Ongoing. "Course 13, 1893-1993: From Naval Architecture to Ocean Engineering." Permanent Exhibition of Ship Models...
Such speculation is difficult if not impossible to thwart because of the sheer size of the world's foreign-exchange markets, which trade more than $1 trillion in currencies daily. Arrayed against that ocean of funds, the Federal Reserve and other central banks have only limited resources for use in any single intervention. Small wonder that when 18 governments pumped $5 billion into the markets to support the dollar two weeks ago, the effort had little impact. "The central banks are powerless against the currency-market forces," asserts Gernot Nerb, director of research at the IFO Institute for Economic Research...
...There has been a half-degree rise in average world temperatures over the past century or so, but that could be part of some sort of natural cycle, unrelated to human activity. Moreover, the Antarctic Peninsula is especially prone to temperature fluctuations because of the complex interactions of winds, ocean currents and ice. The five-times greater increase on the Antarctic Peninsula could thus have happened even without any worldwide warming...
Hart Nautical Gallery. 55 Mass Ave., M.I.T., Cambridge. 253-5942. Ongoing. "Course 13, 1893-1993: From Naval Architecture to Ocean Engineering" and "Permanent Exhibition of Ship Models...