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...crowds boiled, SUVs from Cuban-exile groups moved slowly down the streets calling on loudspeakers for calm, telling the rioters to wait for Tuesday's planned general strike and march. Nearby, 85-year-old exile Pepe Troica shook his head and guarded his car with a lead pipe. "I was completely against sending Elian back," he said. "But this vandalism is ruining our cause...
That's why experiments now going on in laboratories around the world are so important. At a research center outside Stuttgart, Germany, engineers at DaimlerChrysler have created a high-performance car whose tail pipe emits nothing but water vapor. In a giant wind tunnel at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, engineers are set to analyze air turbulence in order to make superefficient wind-power turbines. In Japan scientists are perfecting paper-thin solar cells that will be cheap to produce and could turn every house into its own electricity supplier. These ventures, along with many others, are beginning...
...shoot down any incoming missiles from North Korea or other "rogue" states. Skeptics point out that despite $60 billion of investment in Reagan's "Star Wars" program and a further $10 billion envisaged by the Clinton administration, an even relatively fail-safe system of interceptor missiles remains a pipe dream. Still, that hasn't deterred either Congress or the White House from championing the program...
...officials said they discovered that the gas leak originated in a pipe which vented through Sorrento Square and up Plympton Street...
...stuffed some rags in the ends of the pipe to stop up the leak," Mahoney said...