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...when B.U. left wing Mark Pierog hit the post early in the second period On a key Terrier power play late in the same stanza. Blair left the short side wide open--for perhaps the only time all evening--and B.U.'s Joe Cappellano slammed one off the near pipe. Also, defenseman Tim Smith and Ken Code notched aves of their own in the third period, sliding into the crease behind a wandering Blair...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: A Crimson Surprise: 3-1 Upset at B.U. | 12/1/1983 | See Source »

...numbers if a patient needs immediate attention. Gulf + Western's Sensaphone ($250) monitors room temperatures, sound levels and electrical systems. If a room's temperature rises above or drops below a preset level when a householder is away, perhaps because of a fire or a pipe-freezing chill, the device will automatically send a message to one of four emergency numbers. Technicom's Energy Control System, attached to a phone, allows owners to turn appliances on and off while away from home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tomorrow's Telephones | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...after noon the scroungers have established territorial piles of gleanings. Inside a dumpster filled with old electronics (40? per lb.), three men are crawling around stripping out switches, relays and diodes. In the steel pile (7? per lb.), a swarm is hauling off a transformer cabinet, a 16-in. pipe and a chunk of plate steel left in fanciful cookie-cutter shapes by a plasma-arc cutter. Two men are momentarily baffled by a machined piece. "I don't know what they could have meant to do with this," says one. "It could have been a detector, something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: High-Tech Junkyard | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...Marines' standing orders for duty within the compound, their M-16 rifles were unloaded. As they struggled to insert their weapons' magazines, the vehicle crashed through a wrought-iron gate (5) and into the Marine compound. Either bouncing over or thrusting aside a single 18-in. sewer pipe (6) that was supposed to protect the entrance, the truck crashed through or went around a flimsy guardhouse in the doorway (7), perhaps running down the two Marines on duty, and into the lobby. An instant later, the driver detonated his lethal cargo. The dash from the parking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visibility vs. Vulnerability | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...same day, Saxon, 39, ran a hose from the exhaust pipe of his motorcycle into the sauna of his $685,000 condo in Venice, Calif. He apparently started the engine, then sat in jeans and socks while the sauna filled with carbon monoxide. When his body was found, so was a tape recording of a message to his estranged wife Susan. It explained that he had killed himself because he could not overcome his mounting business losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fool's Gold | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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