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...incomprehension and loss. But Appelfeld then brings Bruno back, some 25 years later, to the same Austrian town. There has been a revival of interest in his father's writings, and the son is invited from Israel to assist in the arrangements for the new edition. This shorter episode raises questions that are not answered, including the fate of Bruno's parents and the means by which he escaped his own destiny on the cattle train. Also, the understandable passivity that Bruno displayed as a young boy has remained; a presumably heroic survivor, he now dawdles aimlessly...
Also this week, a group of prospective 'Poonies marched outside Bay Banks demanding shorter hours and higher pay for automatic tellers...
...debris that destroys incoming warheads, by the "SWARMJET" system of launching a shotgun blast of 10,000 small unguided raockets at each warhead as it approaches the target silo. Perhaps now that the deceptive basing scheme is out of the way, real effort can be applied to analyze this shorter-term ICBM modernization option...
...bobbing 50 miles or so off the Florida coast. On long hauls, drug runners motor out to the mother ship in yachts and fishing boats to pick up the cargo and then shuttle back to the mainland, docking anywhere along some 3,000 miles of South Florida coastline; on shorter hauls, they roar out in souped-up racing speedboats, called "cigarette" boats after the tobacco-bootlegging vessels of the 1930s. Costing as much as $250,000 and able to reach speeds of up to 70 m.p.h., many of the cigarette boats are outfitted with such sophisticated equipment as radar scanners...
...ironically it is a physical failing--his size--that some say prevents Cuccia from reaching greatness on the college level. "He's so small (listed at 5-ft., 8-in. but probably an inch shorter] that he's got to have trouble throwing drop-back passes and over the middle," one teammate says. "I tend to wonder if he can see over some of the players," says another. Adds a third: "He can't do all the things that a winning Ivy football quarterback should be able...