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...leaked document says that nuclear weapons would also be shipped to Spain, the Philippines, Portugal's Azores and the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. According to Arkin, the weapons are ten-kiloton nuclear depth charges that would be dropped from P-3C Orion planes. The State Department last week asked its embassies to emphasize that no nuclear weapons would be shipped to any country without its permission...
...American filmmaking" is so ironic it makes your teeth hurt, but it's also witty and incisive. Paradise is a strange portrait of young Americans and new immigrants, looking for "the promise" and instead finding a model room in a town someplace north of Miami Beach. Where's the ocean...
After we sailed south to avoid the storm, Khrushchev began to spend more time on deck. Once I saw him standing alone, leaning on the ship's railing and looking through his binoculars at the bright ocean. Just as I approached him his arm slipped and he lost his balance. I held him up. He turned to me and said with a gay sparkle in his eyes, "If I were to fall overboard that wouldn't be a calamity. Right now we aren't too far from Cuba, and they'd probably receive me there better than the Americans will...
Leonard excels at this sort of corner-of-the-mouth satire. His research sometimes sticks out, but he has a perfect ear for punk talk, a hungry eye for sleaze and an eerie ability to get inside empty heads: "This ocean was different, the tourist believed, than the ocean up in New Jersey. Though it must be the same water because the oceans were all connected and the water would get different places." Madame Bovary on the boardwalk could not have said it better...
...existence of the field suggests that the giant planet, which is 64 times as large as the earth in volume but has a mass only 14 1/2 times as great, has a liquid core. Some scientists speculate, however, that the magnetic field may be generated by an electrically charged ocean covering the planet. Some of the larger moons apparently have, or at one time had, crustal movements that created the fault zones and valleys evident in the Voyager photographs. Geologist Laurence Soderblom, for one, was surprised at what he called "the degree of geological activity on the Uranian satellites." Along...