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...daily four-or five-mile runs that the Marines took along the road circling their encampment, as well as the routine 15-to 20-man patrols of the streets of Hay es Sullum. Now the soldiers seldom venture far from their bunkers. Under what they call the shade tree, the men relax on bright orange lawn chairs donated by the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Long hours are spent cleaning weapons, and standard attire for a visit to the showers is now gym shorts, flak jacket and steel helmet. Says Lance Corporal James Stewart, 23, referring to the sound of incoming...
...times made for a certain cliquishness, with union and church groups, dressed in identical T shirts, sticking together. At one point, a small band of Hare Krishnas moved along the sidewalk, oblivious to a Pennsylvania group a few feet away carrying signs advocating peace in Central America. In the shade of an old beech tree near by, a band of antinuclear activists stood in a circle, hands linked, eyes closed, as a middle-aged woman in braids and a long skirt led them in prayer...
...tall shade goes to the under world. I built a famous town, saw my great walls...
Tevatron should help right the transatlantic balance. Like Fermilab's existing accelerator, in whose tunnel it was built, the new machine is a giant four-mile-long circular particle race track, capable of whipping protons to within a shade of 186,000 miles per sec., the speed of light. When these high-velocity particles strike a target, for example, a metal bar, they shatter its component atoms, resulting in a burst of subatomic debris. Some of these particles are so ephemeral that they survive for only minute fractions of a second; from the trail they leave in detection devices...
...yarn and swatch upon swatch of silk, rayon and linen. "We need to soften the yellow to almost a blond yellow," one mulled aloud, squinting at several fabric squares. A green swatch was rejected by one woman with a disapproving, "That's too much of a bathroom tile shade." Another tan square drew the comment, "Good. It doesn't have any shine, like a brown paper bag." It seemed for a time that no decisions would be reached, but after 2½ hours of gentle tussling, the group last month in the Manhattan town house offices...