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...surface, he catches its precise, crownlike spray in a stop-action image that was not verified until Harold Edgerton's high-speed photography at M.I.T. Impressive too are his moral sensibilities. He mentions that he has invented an underwater breathing device, then notes that divers could use it to sneak up on enemy ships and sink them. So he destroyed it, he says, lest "the evil nature of men" turn it into an instrument of death. Half a millennium later, he clearly remains a man ahead of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEONARDO REDUX | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...environmental community has its own ambitious campaign of sneak attacks. The League of Conservation Voters has devoted its $1.5 million kitty to defeat just 12 lawmakers (11 Republicans and one Democrat) whom the organization has called "the Dirty Dozen." The Sierra Club has targeted 30 races with a million-dollar effort, including voter guides (on recycled paper) that list incumbent Republicans who allegedly have damaged the ecosystems of their own districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEATING THE SYSTEM | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Alliance obviously aren't authoritarian enough for these brutes, to say nothing of the "liberal" Undergraduate Council or President Clinton. It seems as if Peninsula is still fighting the Cold War, making cracks about Clinton "guarding the hallowed halls of Oxford University from a Vietcong sneak attack" and the council's political slicksters opting under a hypothetical transplant to "communist" China "to curry favor with the butchers of Beijing." This is how out there the Peninsula is, how so removed it is from the modern political scene that it cannot comprehend the fundamentally conservative policies...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Naming Names: Peninsula's Fascists | 10/15/1996 | See Source »

...second overtime, an interception by Cornell's Dave Ahouse gave the Big Red possession and the eventual victory on a quarterback sneak into the end zone...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Football's First Week Marked by Upsets | 9/26/1996 | See Source »

...this would have been a doomed effort. And I didn't even want to try to sneak into the military dictatorship otherwise known as Annenberg Hall. So I just tried to survive any way I could...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Gimme Some Good Grubbin' | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

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