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...scorched sands of Saudi Arabia, 180,000 American ground troops wait impatiently, cleaning their weapons, exercising, thinking of D-day. Flashing overhead are the best attack planes of the U.S. Air Force: F-15s, F-16s, radar-evading F-117 Stealth fighters. At sea, U.S. Navy Aegis cruisers train their Tomahawk cruise missiles on Iraqi targets, while aircraft carriers launch and recover squadrons of bombers and interceptors...
Pound has verified a prediction of Einstein'stheory of relativity and performed the firstexperiments detecting nuclear magnetic resonance,a field with wide-ranging medical applications. Heis credited with aiding in the development of themodern radar...
...puts it: "Most Congressmen come from Leave It to Beaver families and go back to the district and talk to Leave It to Beaver fathers at the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce, in other words, to people just like themselves. Women's issues aren't on the radar screen." In addition, powerful men want to project power. Fighting for the right to take time off to care for a newborn or an aging parent is not the read-my-lips image that wins elections...
Northrop Corp., maker of the radar-avoiding B-2 Stealth bomber, has asked the government to refuse trademark status for this Texas-based prophylactics company. The $5 condoms, available in red, white and blue, sport a taste- avoiding slogan: "They'll never see you coming...
...Pentagon already flying new variations on the Stealth series of radar- fooling aircraft? Military aficionados think they've spotted at least two new planes near U.S. testing bases. One version is believed to be a prototype of the A-12, a successor to the Navy's A-6 attack plane, which is expected to cost some $60 million apiece. The plane has no vertical tail surface, giving it the appearance of a manta ray, according to one witness. Little is known about a separate aircraft being tested in northern California, which spotters say appears to be a successor...