Word: ores
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Soon after Iraq invaded Kuwait, U.S. intelligence officials conducted an emergency review of their earlier assessment that Saddam is five to 10 years away from developing nuclear arms by enriching uranium ore to bomb-grade levels. "The sense was, 'My God, this guy's a maniac; he'll do anything. Is there any way we haven't thought of he could get the Bomb?' " says an official. The panel came up with only one scenario: Iraq might have enough bomb-grade fuel on hand to fashion a single low-yield atomic weapon in a period of several months to several...
Stung by those setbacks, Baghdad turned to a third means of joining the nuclear club: the enrichment of uranium to weapons-grade level in gas centrifuges. The centrifuges take uranium-bearing ore or a mixture called yellowcake and separate out the 3% of uranium 235, which is fissionable, from the 97% of uranium 238, which is not. Iraq is known to possess 250 tons of yellowcake, most of it purchased in the 1970s from Brazil, China and Niger. In recent years the country has also begun producing its own yellowcake from mines in northern Iraq...
Baby boomers led the change. Growing up with the feminist movement, they wanted not only to work alongside men on the trading-room floor but also to play alongside them on the gym floor. "I started working out to get stronger," explains Sidney Perry, 39, a Portland, Ore., wardrobe stylist. "I wanted to be my own person." Other previously nonathletic women were swept up by the more general fitness movement. "I used to think there were two classes of people: athletes and the rest of us," says Nancy Crichlow, 29, a sales assistant in Houston who now works out regularly...
Violent hatemongering can be an expensive hobby. That's the message of a $12.5 million verdict handed down in Portland, Ore., last week against television repairman Tom Metzger, his son John, their national racist organization White Aryan Resistance, and two of the three partying skinhead punks who, incited by WAR, arbitrarily bludgeoned a 27-year-old Ethiopian man to death two years...
...growing acceptability opens up many opportunities for him in 1991, when he can pick his target in a state where the open primary seems made for this kind of permanent campaigning. He can run for Governor, state senator, or the U.S. House. He has struck a vein of rich ore, and others are circling closer to share in mining...