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What was that bizarre sight in San Francisco Bay last week? Darth Vader's helmet? A movie prop for Batman III? No, the vessel steaming across the water on a test mission was Sea Shadow, a 160-ft., 560-ton, welded-steel catamaran that is the latest thing in Navy technology: a Stealth ship. Designed by the same Lockheed "skunk works" that built the F-117A Stealth fighter, the ship has sloping angles and a special coating designed to make it nearly invisible to enemy sonar and radar. Such stealthy boats might someday guard the perimeter of carrier groups, covertly...
...Restic is on the national fringe. "Well, la-ti-da," a writer for the Houston Post wrote in response. "Harvard's never lost a recruit to Prop...
Tehran badly miscalculated its income from oil exports after the Gulf War, counting on an OPEC price hike that did not materialize. The oil industry has not regained its prewar export capacity, and its $16 billion a year in earnings helps prop up other failing state enterprises. The country is already $5 billion in arrears in its foreign-debt repayments, and is expected to be about $10 billion behind a year from...
Nonetheless, the banker's deals have helped prop up Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. When heating-oil supplies fell dangerously low last October, the banker loaned Belgrade $2.5 million to bolster the city's depleted reserves before winter. He now wants the loan repaid directly to Jugoskandik depositors...
...first glance, the poster from Robert Altman's film "The Player" might appear to be just another randomly placed prop gracing the set of First Night, a convincing facsimile of a video store. Eventually, however, the parallels between the movie and this play become clear. First Night attempts to accomplish with light-hearted humor what "The Player" did with dark satire--to blur the distinction between the worlds of illusion and reality. Yet, while "The Player" illustrates the danger of individuals who lose contact with the real world, First Night wants to affirm the beauty of dreams and their power...