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...nuclear-powered cruiser Virginia, part of an American flotilla that had grown to more than a dozen vessels with the arrival of the battleship New Jersey late last week, hurled some 600 rounds into the wooded hills above Beirut. For residents of the Lebanese capital, the shells zooming overhead produced a piercing whistle that sounded at first like some strange aircraft preparing for a landing. But moments later, the hills shuddered and burst into flame. Along the ridge that ascends abruptly behind Beirut, columns of smoke rose into the clear autumn...
Beginning at dawn on several days last week, Druze and Christian militiamen exchanged artillery fire in villages on both sides of the Beirut-Damascus highway. Ambulances, their sirens wailing, raced up and down the main road as shells whizzed overhead. Small-arms fire echoed in the hills a few hundred yards from the Lebanese Defense Ministry. Much of the time, Christian East Beirut was largely shut down, the streets empty, most shops closed. Shells and rockets fell on the predominantly Muslim southern suburbs as well as on the Christian areas along the coast to the north...
Among them: cataract surgery, tonsillectomy, breast biopsy, D & C (dilatation and curettage of the uterus), knee arthroscopy, vasectomy and facelifts. Essentially, the centers can perform any operation that does not require prolonged general anesthesia and extensive post-op care. Because they avoid the overhead costs of such services, the surgical centers can charge as little as one-third of what a hospital asks for a given procedure. Boasts Surgeon Darrell Holman, a co-founder of the Arcadia center: "We've streamlined our costs so that we're as efficient as a submarine...
Vega is one of the brightest stars in the summer sky; in the Northern Hemisphere it is visible almost directly overhead in the constellation Lyra. About 60 times as luminous as the sun, this glowing beacon is often used by astronomers to calibrate their instruments and judge the brightness of other celestial bodies. Now scientists have another reason to keep an eye on this prominent star. Last week Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that an orbital telescope, the new Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), appears to have found the first direct evidence that a far-off star could...
Vega, now visible nearly directly overhead and part of the constellation Lyra, is located about 26 light years away, the distance light would travel in that span of time, or about 150 trillion miles. Scientists believe the star to be about twice the size and 60 times as bright as the sun, with the particles extending in an envelope or disk about 7.4 billion miles in radius, approximately twice the distance from the sun to the orbit of its outermost planet...