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...ground-troop exercises in Honduras, known as Big Pine II, will involve upwards of 3,000 U.S. combat troops for two months beginning in November. Among the past exercises on the ground in Central America...
...February the U.S. and Honduras conducted the weeklong Big Pine I, involving 1,600 U.S. personnel, none of them combat troops...
Cork, resin, paraffin and tenpenny nails are abominations designed to make the ball fly a greater distance, but the pine-tar section of Rule 1.10 ("not more than 18 in. from the end") was included merely to keep the ball clean, actually in consideration to the hitter. From the second Brett homered to right, and Nettles ran to Zimmer, and Zimmer ran to Manager Billy Martin, and Martin ran to the umpires, and the New York Times ran it on Page One, no one argued that Brett had taken or received any unfair advantage. And that was the crux...
...showcase of Japanese science is a sprawling 70,000-acre complex 37 miles northeast of Tokyo called Tsukuba Science City. Nestled amid pine groves and rice paddies in the shadow of 2,874-ft. Mount Tsukuba are 50 government and private research centers and an affiliated university. Founded in 1963 as part of a national "seeds for the future" effort in science and technology, Tsukuba Science City now has an annual government budget of $600 million and a staff of 7,000 scientists, engineers and technicians. Their investigations extend from high-energy physics (using a 12 billion electron volt accelerator...
...Misawa family had lived in Nagano, which means long field, for a thousand years, most of the time as rice growers. After the war, in which he lost both brothers, Daimaru Misawa bought land inexpensively on the dry slope. He cleared mountain pine and, with other villagers, put in a cooperative irrigation system. In the '50s he built a home, then a larger one ten years ago. His 4.4-acre farm is about twice the average acreage here, and his grapes, apples, peaches and melons have done well. The eldest son, Isamu, had just installed a new, promising method...