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...this will be set amid gardens and fountains on a positively Olympian site -- 110 acres abutting the Brentwood neighborhood, on a hill just half a mile north of Sunset Boulevard -- with panoramas to die for. "You can see downtown, you can see UCLA, Century City, Santa Monica and the ocean," says Meier, who has lived half the time in a house on the site since...
...mind game of deterrence, MIRVed submarine missiles are the trump card in the American deck: even if American ICBMs were destroyed in their silos and American bombers vaporized on their runways or shot down trying to penetrate Soviet airspace, U.S. submarines would still be at the bottom of the ocean, running silent and running deep, invulnerable to pre-emption and bristling with missiles, each capable of exacting terrible revenge on the U.S.S.R. Older U.S. boats are equipped with missiles that carry as many as 14 warheads each, while the newer ones have missiles with eight to 12 warheads. The notion...
...this sense, he united the Western and Eastern hemispheres of the world across the Atlantic. No man had done so before. Our traditional reverence for his feat is Eurocentric in essence; as the world's focus shifts toward the Pacific, the ocean of the future, Ferdinand Magellan and Captain James Cook -- the latter being a better candidate for the greatest mariner and "encounterer" in human history -- may assume the same dimensions for our descendants that Columbus had for our immediate ancestors. But in the meantime, we should not allow our reaction against the myth of Columbus as Renaissance Ulysses, Romantic...
Granted, as less vitriolic modern historiography makes clear, Columbus was not the gem of the ocean, the flawless hero of so many earlier hagiographies. But was the historic figure whose name was adopted by a South American republic, the District of Columbia and countless other places and entities, really worse than Hitler or Attila the Hun? What in the New World is going on around here...
...they will receive nothing from outside. Dubbed Biosphere 2 (the earth is Biosphere 1), the glass-and-steel-enclosed structure has been seeded with 3,800 species of plants and animals in five different wilderness ecosystems: a desert, savannah, rain forest, marsh and 7.6-m-deep (25-ft.-deep) "ocean" complete with coral reef. The experiment, seven years and $100 million in the making, has been hailed as the most exciting scientific project since the effort to put man on the moon...