Word: shock
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...have peaked. "There are many ways to kill the zebra mussel," observes Ohio State entomologist Susan Fisher. "The trick is to do it selectively" without wiping out other aquatic life. Fisher has recently found that minute traces of potassium, nontoxic to other organisms, reliably send zebra mussels into fatal shock. Paints laced with potassium, she speculates, might protect underwater structures from mussel infestation. Physiologist Jeffrey Ram of Wayne State University in Detroit makes an even more devious suggestion. Zebra-mussel spawning, he notes, is triggered by odors wafting from phytoplankton. These chemical cues ensure that the eggs hatch when...
Even a minor air war between Israel and Iraq would send shock waves throughout the Arab world, where public opinion instinctively backs any attack on Israel. But if Israel acts with restraint and in self-defense, U.S. officials believe they can hold together the delicate Arab alliance. A large- scale Israeli counterattack, however, could ignite a second war in the region. An Iraqi-Israeli battle, for example, would entail massive violations of Jordanian airspace, confronting King Hussein with a critical dilemma. Diplomatic sources say Jordan and Israel have held secret contacts to clarify their positions. Israeli officials, who are acutely...
...like reading this thesis. Its topic will shock...
...shock waves quickly spread from the Palace of Congresses through the Soviet Union and the world. For Gorbachev, who shook his head in disbelief as his Foreign Minister spoke, it was the darkest hour of his leadership. Not only had he lost one of his closest allies in the Kremlin, but it seemed obvious that he could no longer continue walking a tightrope over the heads of reformist democrats, national separatists and proponents of a law-and-order crackdown; the splits had become too deep and envenomed for that. And Shevardnadze tossed in a warning of what might happen...
...possible that Shevardnadze's resignation will give Gorbachev a salutary shock that will arrest any further drift to the right. But it is equally possible that it will accentuate such a drift by removing one of the last and most eloquent advocates of perestroika from Gorbachev's inner circle. Among a parade of speakers to the Congress podium after Shevardnadze's speech, Vladimir Chernyak, a Ukrainian economist, gave a new twist to warnings of a coup: "At the head of the coup stands Gorbachev. It's possible he himself doesn't know it. By demanding for himself more and more...