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...less-developed regions, such as the Balkans and Africa, where heavy guns generally can't maneuver. Artillery--with its less than precise targeting--is designed to disrupt the massed armor and troop concentrations found on traditional battlefields. But future conflicts will focus on swift, dispersed combatants that provide scant prey for artillery...
...entrepreneurs. Sevin Rosen, the venture-capital firm that launched Compaq Computer, recently pumped $2 million into a California start-up that plans to build low-radiation phones. At the same time, a cottage industry has sprung up to market shielding devices that block out radiation, although most have scant scientific evidence to support their claims of effectiveness...
HANOVER--The Harvard women's basketball team that has won two consecutive games this past week in convincing fashion bears scant resemblance to the team that went 1-10 to start the season before winter break. Although the Crimson's recent start was its worst in years, there was reason to hope that this team could do some soul-searching over break and turn the season around. It had been done before...
Conklin has found his groove again though, touting a scant 0.99 GAA and a near-perfect .965 save percentage in his last five games. Perhaps it is more than coincidence that UNH hasn't lost a game since November...
...scant hours, the polls will close, and the talking heads will have something besides low-pressure centers to hold forth on. Then it'll be time to haul out your galoshes. But it won't be slush you'll be wading through. 6 p.m.: The Spinshine State