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...Boston with a nuclear device unless he was paid $200,000. Since then, NEST has evaluated 110 threats, and mobilized itself to deal with about 30 of them; like the Boston incident, all have been hoaxes. Yet NEST is more than a high-tech SWAT team. At the remote Pajarito site in the Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratory complex in New Mexico, 17 scientists are using technology found on the shelves of Radio Shack and the type of nuclear fuel sold on the black market to construct homemade bombs. To dismantle a makeshift device, scientists first must know the various...
This junkyard of high-tech effluvia is 7,500 ft. above sea level, occupying three acres of the Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico. The Jemez Mountains and the Sangre de Cristo range rise from the Rio Grande Valley, the gray-green slopes splashed with yellowing aspen. The incomparable clouds of the high desert float over the city on the hill. Los Alamos, birthplace of the atomic bomb, is a 40-year-old company town (pop. 17,500). The company is the U.S. Government, and the main business is nuclear weapons. The lab's Bradbury Science Museum...
Unfortunately for Pajarito. neither the referee nor Bassey was listening. After a between-rounds breather in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field last week. Bassey came back to throw so many punches so fast that his muscular Mexican opponent might as well have been tilting with a windmill. A savage uppercut separated Moreno from his mouthpiece with such violence that third-row fans caught the spray. Even when he was completely off balance, Bassey almost removed Moreno from his haircut with a pair of left hooks and a right uppercut delivered in split-second succession. At the end of the third...
...Pajarito's defeat was a national disaster to a loud army of Mexicans who had been stampeding northward for days. They had jammed up at border stations, scrapped for space on airlines. So many of them swarmed into the stadium that when the band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner to start the brawl, the music was drowned out by their shouts of "Down in front!" After Moreno was peeled off the canvas and the announcer asked for "a hand for the beaten boy," the leftfield cheering section responded with a raucous Mexican razzberry...
...Pajarito and his countrymen had been completely convinced by a compact (5 ft. 3 in.; 124 Ibs.) little man whose square name is Okon Bassey Asuque, Esq., M.B.E.* His ebony fists are probably the swiftest pair of weapons in the prize ring, and his Oxford-accented speech is certainly the rarest: "When I awoke the morning of the fight and saw it was raining, I actually wept. I was emotionally prepared to fight that night, and a delay would have been annoying...