Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Counterfeit armaments can easily fool pilots zipping overhead who may not have time to analyze infrared images of their targets, which reveal the wooden husks below for what they are. Except, that is, when the decoys include heaters to simulate the infrared signature of, say, a tank engine, and perhaps crude transmitters to produce radar signals. A deluxe imitation tank from M.V.M. runs about $23,000, a lot cheaper than the real thing, which can cost $1 million or more...
...books which reveal the vast differences within today's children's literature are Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie and Loving the Earth: A Sacred Landscape Book for Children written by Fredric Lehrman, with illustrations by Lisa Tune. The first is notable for the success Rushdie achives in a difficult area. The second book is remarkably bad; irritating and uninspired, Loving the Earth's only redeeming quality is its illustration...
...Lucas has yet to show real subtlety or depth, he does, in a couple of instances, come upon a pathos deeper than mere appetite, and reveal, beneath the plump lubriciousness, regrets and surprising pleasures. Characters find themselves reproved by expectation, exiles on all fronts. At their best, his stories have the everyday magic of tall tales overheard at the local tea stall. It is no coincidence, perhaps, that the neighbor who runs away with the Irish fireman's wife in one yarn -- to an ashram in Pondicherry, no less -- goes by the name of Scheherazade...
Then there's the dictator. When Manuel Noriega was apprehended, some commentators wondered whether he would ever really be brought to trial, given what he might reveal about his long association with former CIA Director George Bush. They were right to wonder. With the revelation -- mysteriously leaked to CNN -- that the U.S. government has been eavesdropping on Noriega's conversations with his lawyers, the prosecution may have opened the door for Noriega to walk, untried, to a relaxing life in exile...
...press conference did reveal one way the crisis could be resolved: An Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait following statements from U.S. officials that America believes in finding a peaceful solution to the Israeli occupation...