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While the ultimate terror would be a working bomb constructed by terrorists on their own, the much likelier catastrophe is a large purchase of plutonium by a country looking for a shortcut to a nuclear arsenal. "It's clear that the highest bidder is going to be a state," says Phebe Marr, an expert on Iraq at the National Defense University in Washington. A government with nuclear ambitions would want not just a single bomb but an arsenal or significant additions to an existing arsenal. One or two bombs could attract threats and retaliation from abroad. So an interested state...
...students explained their shortcut-taking techniques in one of Trumbull Professors of American History Donald H. Fleming's classes...
...feature that shows some creativity of the software's developers is "Tip of the Day" in the Help section. Every time WFW is booted up, a new tip becomes active. Each tip gives a shortcut to using WFW and can be very helpful for those of us who absolutely loathe reading the huge set of manuals or searching through the on-line help...
Microsoft has also added so-called shortcut menus, which are superficially similar to the balloon help in the Macintosh System...
...whereas the latter provide explanations of objects on the screen, WFW shortcut menus, activated by clicking the right mouse button over a screen element (such as text or toolbar), allow you to access functions associated with that object without going to the main menu...