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Today: A mixture of clouds and sun, breezy and mild. A 30 percent chance of showers, high 50 to 55. Southwest wind 20 to 30 mph, shifting to northwest late in the day. Tonight: Partly cloudy, windy and turning colder, low 25 to 30. Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, continued windy and cold, highs...
Iraq might have obtained nuclear arms by now if its relentless efforts had not been thwarted. In 1977 the country began installing a French Osirak-model nuclear reactor, ostensibly for research projects, at El-Tuwaitha, 10 1/2 miles southwest of Baghdad. Four years later, convinced that the reactor's real purpose was to produce plutonium to be chemically reprocessed and used for weapons, Israel bombed the facility to rubble...
Today: sunny, high around 45. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph. Tonight and tomorrow: partly cloudy, low around 30, high around...
...snug quadrangle of dilapidated buildings on the grounds of a turn-of-the-century Methodist mission. It has a pleasant atmosphere and, if you blur your eyes a bit, looks like a down-at-the-heels New England prep school transferred to a bleak section of the Southwest...
...this can be realized unless men ease the load on women by learning how to take care of themselves. "In Japan the women's issue is really a men's issue," says Sachiko Nakajima, a deputy director at the National Personnel Authority, which oversees public employees. Kanagawa prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, shares her view. A 1988 prefectural-office newsletter published a test to gauge male self-reliance, asking, Do you know where your suits, neckties, socks and underwear are kept? Have you ever used a washing machine? Can you name more than three friends of your children? Only when more...