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...taken in daytime. In some cases, long exposures with sensitive film and light-intensifying devices can take satisfactory shots in moonlight or even starlight. But it is more common to illuminate the target, usually by a powerful flash bomb dropped by parachute and exploded far below the plane. A shield keeps the brilliant light from reaching the camera directly, but the first light reflected from the ground triggers a photocell to open the camera's shutter. If there are no lights on the ground to fog the film, the shutter can be opened before the flash bomb explodes...
...predawn darkness, the ragtag irregulars set up roadblocks, sabotaged communications lines, and overran police stations all over the country. In the town of Seria, Shell Oil's Brunei headquarters, the rebels rounded up 55 hostages, formed them into a human shield, and marched them to a nearby police barracks. But when the police fired on the shield, both prisoners and rebels broke...
There will be no charge for those covered by the University Blue Cross Blue Shield or student health plans. For all others, including dependents, there will be a charge of $1. Since public health authorities advise that family groups be immunized together, the University has made an exception to its usual policy of not giving medical care in its facilities to dependents...
...scientist commented. "Inside the ring, there is tremendous leakage of energy in the form of high-frequency radiation. A person caught in there when the machine is running would receive a fatal does in a small fraction of a second." Eight feet of concrete and lead are used to shield the experimental hall personnel from the ring's radiation...
Best in Groups. Anyone in an area served by Medikaiser is eligible to join. And for their money subscribers get more complete protection than is available from most other forms of U.S. medical insurance. In most of the U.S., Blue Cross pays only hospital bills and Blue Shield pays only surgeons' fees and some doctors' bills; H.I.P. (the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York), runner-up to Kaiser as the nation's biggest prepaid care plan, does not cover hospital bills. Medikaiser covers almost everything...