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...edge in some weapons (such as cruise missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles). But the Soviets have an advantage in a key category: accurate, destructive warheads on ICBMs. They have more than 6,000, compared with some 2,000 for the U.S. Those are the ''silo busters,'' the instruments of a hypothetical first-strike threat against America's 1,000 ICBM launchers. This Soviet preponderance in ICBM warheads contributed to Reagan's disenchantment with Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) as well as to his enthusiasm for SDI. For years he had questioned the efficacy and morality...
...band up--though he did have the group record in Spanish churches and play with tablas--but by tying it down. Viva la Vida starts with the light pulse of a keyboard and a beep that could be a passing satellite. Everything seems to exist in its own silo until a rising whoosh comes along and the instruments merge into a huge harmonious collision. The track is called Life in Technicolor, and what differentiates it from previous Coldplay attempts to lasso the cosmos (Speed of Sound, Clocks) is the details--or rather, the fact that there are details. Whereas before...
...using the office refrigerator. So until 5 p.m., you can now order some dishes "lunch size." Although lunch size here seems to be the amount of food Shaq might eat to rev up for a game. The meat loaf came with the same mountain of gravied mashed potatoes and silo of corn as the normal size but with two pieces of meat loaf instead of three. And our weight-management salad was undentable. I went at it for almost an hour but eventually gave up and went back to the mashed potatoes...
...window. “Nude in Soho” is similarly configured, though this time the sunbather is on the ledge of a balcony. From Soho, the two towers loom much larger, occupying much of the right half of the photograph, and are accompanied by a suggestively shaped silo on the left. Unlike their marine counterparts, both these women look weary; the phallic and inhospitable city thrust upon their delicate complexions. Clergue’s recent “Nu Zébré” series provides a counterpoint to this antagonism. Each...
...potential warheads. "This reduces the burden on sensors and algorithms, which no longer need to be programmed to select one, best target," the Pentagon says. Of course, a better interceptor won't be worth much if the booster designed to hurl it into space stays stuck in its silo because of rusty parts or sloppy software...