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...mission might have succeeded. It might have succeeded because the extraordinary men who put it together thought it could. They calculated thousands of human and mechanical contingencies and provided for them in their preparations. But always in these things providence demands a part, and no human can reckon with that hand. Washington, Jackson, Custer, Doolittle risked and won-and sometimes lost. God knows why, and we are not going to know finally this time...
...investments from such savvy money havens as New York, California and Europe continue to flow into Colorado. Says SEC Regional Administrator Robert Davenport: "The Denver market operates on the 'greater fool' theory. Irrespective of a company's merits, people will buy its stock because they reckon a bigger fool will come along later to buy it at a higher price...
...taste for a strong dance beat and a sense of fun as strong as all that ganja Bob Marley goes on about. Besides roots, both Madness and Specials hold similar suspicions about mainstream rock. "Me Mum had a lot of Beatles records," admits Madness Organ Player Mike Barson. "I reckon they're pretty good, but a bit wimpy." Observes the Specials' Panter: "I think the Rolling Stones have been playing Honky Tonk Women for the past ten years. It must be quite tedious for them." To stave off occupational hazards, the Specials have formed their own label...
...issues become hot collector's items like the 1918 upside-down airmail stamp, or even the less exotic 5? 1967 American Space Twins issue, which still commands $10 for a block of four? Not likely. Some 300 million Olympic stamps were sent to post offices last fall. To reckon their value, philatelic enthusiasts will have to determine how many were sold, saved, licked or lost before Bolger halted sales...
...using a simpler system called vitrification. The waste is allowed to cool off for five years, then mixed with borosilicate glass and hardened into a black, solid glass cylinder. Storage is easier because this cylinder occupies only one-sixth the volume of the waste in liquid form. French scientists reckon that if all the nuclear waste that the country generates in the next 20 years were formed into a solid glass cube, each side would measure 53 ft. in length. This glass is expected to resist corrosion and prevent seepage. Creating a waste-treatment industry, France is also reprocessing spent...