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Flying is a complicated business. The planes, made of balsa wood and plastic, range in style from stable training craft to detailed scale planes that replicate the real thing. They weigh from 10 lbs. to 125 lbs. and cost anywhere from $350 for a basic set to more than $4,000. There are gas-powered planes (more powerful but noisier) and newer electric ones. There's sport flying (for the fun of it) and competition, as well as combat flying, float flying (above water) and pattern aerobatics...
...Israel developed new equipment, new forces and new tactics. To secure its borders, Israel deployed more heavily armored tanks and troop-carrying vehicles. Apache helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles and very long-range optics were procured. To protect itself internally, Israel issued its infantrymen plastic bullets and other riot-control gear. Special security forces were organized to help relieve the conventional Israeli units of responsibility for keeping order inside Israel. When confrontation with hostile crowds was unavoidable, Israel used restrictive rules of engagement--and snipers to respond to armed opponents--in an effort to minimize losses and avoid dramatic scenes that...
...cascade of credit-card offers in your mailbox, you would think there is plenty of competition in the industry. Banks have been leaping over one another to grab more of what industry types call "wallet share"--a bigger chunk of the 80% of U.S. households that already carry plastic. So banks pick fights with other banks. Special, predatory offers abound--2.87 billion mailings in 1999 alone. "Competition doesn't get any better than this," says David Robertson, president of the Nilson Report, a credit-card-industry newsletter...
...heats to a perfect, sub-boiling 205[degrees]F and gets sucked up into the vacuum created in the funnel, where it briefly mixes with the grounds before cascading back down into the carafe. It's a riot of noise and smell. And Utopia looks fabulous too; its translucent plastic housing would be right at home next to an iMac...
...whole Washington U. campus has been webbed in those orange plastic mesh fences you see at construction sites, and those students actually trying to make it to class are forced to take long, seemingly arbitrary detours. Unless you know somebody, that is; a cop cuts the fence in one place to let students distributing copies of the debate edition of the campus newspaper, Student Life, through...