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GOLD. Experts agree that one of the most effective ways to hurt the South African economy without creating higher unemployment among blacks would be to force down the price of gold. South Africa earns $7 billion a year from its sales of gold, priced at about $350 per oz., to other countries. The British magazine the Economist has suggested that countries holding large amounts of gold in their central banks could merely issue a threat to sell significant quantities unless Pretoria eased some of its repressive measures, and then "private hoarders from Bombay to Brittany would be rushing to sell...
...many sketches later, when Voyager assumed its basic shape, it was a textbook example of featherweight design and construction. The shell is made from quarter-inch-thick panels of Hexcel honeycomb, a resin-coated, paper-like polymer, covered with graphite fibers embedded in epoxy. The panels weigh just 4 oz. per sq. ft. but have remarkable tensile strength; the ends of the craft's thin, 110-ft. single wing can flex up and down as much as 35 ft. without breaking...
...dashboards of high-performance cars or in the cabs of long-haul trucks, the portable radar detector is fast becoming standard operating equipment in workaday Chevys, Fords and Toyotas. By beeping a warning whenever a police radar transmitter is operating nearby, the small (as light as 6 oz.) electronic gizmos give lead-footed drivers a chance to slow down before a police officer can spot a speeding violation. About 1.5 million citizens bought so-called Smokey detectors last year, a 25% increase over 1984. This year industry sales are expected to keep growing, from $250 million to more than...
...Great Mouse Detective is aimed at children and their indulgent parents, Labyrinth (written by Monty Python's Terry Jones) means to beguile precocious adolescents of all ages. With nods to L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz) and Children's Author Maurice Sendak, Labyrinth lures a modern Dorothy Gale out of the drab Kansas of real life into a land where the wild things are: deaf-and-dumb doorknobs, feral party animals that toss their heads like volleyballs, a terrier-faced knight and his sheep-dog steed, a silly sage with a talking bird growing out of his head...
...came up with the idea for colored sunscreens in 1982, but it took them more than three years to recruit a chemist and find a lab to make the product. The time, it turned out, was well spent. Since their Zinka appeared in February, more than 90,000 .75-oz. tubes have been sold, at $4.50 each, in the U.S., Canada, Japan and Europe. In the meantime, an Australian firm marketed a similar product, Le Zink, in October, but it did not reach the U.S. until last month. It comes in .35-oz. containers priced...