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Between the four companies' main sets and their special card sets, there are over 2500 individual pieces of cardboard to buy. No kid can afford to buy them all, so the fierce competition has created an explosion of color and style. Gone are the cards that had plain lettering under a rectangular photo on a white background. Lone gone is Topps' 1977 set, which had maybe a dozen action photos...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: Examining This Year's Baseball Cards | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

Head, legs and tail should be singed. Take the meat (before being put in the pot). Bring water to a boil. Add fat. Onions, samidu, leeks, garlic, some blood, some fresh cheese, the whole beaten together. Add an equal amount of plain suhutinnu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mesopotamian Menus Make Elis Salivate | 4/1/1988 | See Source »

...American M1 Abrams tanks maneuver through war games on the West German plain, NATO strategists worry about how to protect them from increasingly powerful Soviet antitank missiles. Last week the Army announced the development of an armor that will give the Abrams far better combat survivability. "This isn't a 10% upgrade in protection, this is a 100% upgrade," said Phillip Karber, a vice president of the weapons-testing BDM Corp. and an expert on tanks. The new armor, containing depleted uranium encased in steel, will not reduce the tank's top speed of 42 m.p.h. The Pentagon says that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Hot New Armor For the Abrams | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...respond appropriately to unexpected tasks and problems. To develop such systems, a rebel generation of AI scientists believes that it is necessary to rebuild their field from the ground up. Their emphasis, says Philosopher Daniel Dennett of Tufts University, is on figuring out how people manage to accomplish the plain, everyday things that account for most human behavior, rather than on creating a mathematical model of the intellect, as an older generation of AI researchers have tried and failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Knowledge to Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

Driving through Somerville and then onto Interstate 95, you may notice two or three big billboard signs. They are plain white with blue print and read: "Don't get left behind. Apply for legalization by May 4." They are put up by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), a federal agency, and address those illegal aliens who entered the United States before 1982. If those lucky people get to a lawyer in time, they can relax about deportation fears for the rest of their lives. Of course, they will receive a special identification card to prove their status; any legal...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Billboards: Threatening Signs for Illegals | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

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