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...violence was not limited to Johannesburg. In Umlazi, a black township outside the Indian Ocean port of Durban, riot police hunting suspected terrorists surrounded a house and ordered the occupants to leave the building. One man came out shooting, officials said, but police gunfire drove him back inside. Another man opened fire from a window and was shot dead. Police flung hand grenades into the house and set it afire. Inside the ruins they found two corpses and a cache of AK-47 assault rifles...
...Secretary struggles to keep his hawkish military in check, but both leaders are unpleasantly surprised to learn of cracks in the system. Initially the Pentagon can't find all its 25,000-odd nuclear warheads, and dismisses this problem as "inventory shrinkage." A ballistic-missile submarine in the Indian Ocean can't be located. The Soviet leader's helplessness mounts as the KGB and Soviet military battle for turf...
...patterns but cause more ferocious storms. Writing in Nature, M.I.T. Meteorologist Kerry Emanuel warned that a warmer climate could result in hurricanes packing up to 50% more destructive power. This could happen, he suggests, within 40 to 80 years, when some scientists think CO2 levels will have doubled and ocean temperatures will have increased by 2 degrees C to 3 degrees C. Because the energy of warm, rising air is the driving force behind hurricanes, a warmer ocean would translate into stronger storms...
...narrative shifts rapidly from Gray's thoughts on the bombings, to opinions of strangers he meets in trains, to memories of his fun on the beaches of the Indian Ocean...
Harvard Real Estate, Inc. (HRE) presently maintains three retreats in Maine that are available to faculty members and their immediate family. The Howells Memorial House, located on Kittery Point overlooking Portsmouth Harbor, comes complete with "a private tennis court, an ocean view dotted with lighthouses, sailboats, and lobster pots, and easy access to swimming, shopping and other recreational activities of the southern Maine coast," according to the HRE brochure...