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...finally, BATMAN and ROBIN outwit the RIDDLER and the CAT-WOMAN this morning at 7. But then, you've probably already missed that...
...these schemes attempt to outwit Soviet missiles with what the Pentagon calls PLU: preservation of location uncertainty. So far it is only the MX project itself, scheduled for completion at the end of the decade, that is maintaining a high degree...
...years sifting through thousands of fairy and folk tales looking for brave and clever heroines. She found enough for two books: Tatterhood and Other Tales (The Feminist Press; 1978) and her just published The Maid of the North (Holt, Rinehart & Winston). Here the fables are turned: women rescue men, outwit demons and fight like Cossacks. Tatterhood, named for her ragged, mud-stained clothes, batters a gang of wicked trolls and recaptures the severed head of her sister. An old Japanese woman, paddling along a stream, thinks quickly when pursuing monsters suck up all the water: she tosses them some fish...
...this young David managed to outwit the Goliaths of the testing world? In the disputed question, the students were shown a diagram of two pyramids. One consisted of four triangles, the other of four triangles plus a rectangular base. All the triangles were equilateral (that is, their sides were of the same length) and of the same size. The problem: if the two pyramids were joined by setting two triangles next to each other so they precisely coincided, how many faces would remain "exposed" in the resulting solid? The testers expected simple reasoning to provide the answer: together the pyramids...
...sign of kinship: two skeletons bore rings of identical design. Sarianidi's theory is that a family patriarch stumbled upon the long buried temple and appropriated it as a royal necropolis. For 200 years successive generations were apparently buried at the unmarked site, probably by night to outwit grave robbers...