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...that the grandmother, who was listed as Carmin's guardian, held the account. "The IRS is satisfied that money does not belong to the taxpayer that owes the Government money," said an agency spokesman. Carmin, meanwhile, celebrated the news, and escaped the summer heat, by frolicking in the cool spray of a garden hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Turn Over That Piggy Bank! | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...been on, the Stark's Phalanx defense system would probably have been able to spray a Gatling-gun burst that could have turned the incoming missile into a brief footnote to the news. The Stark was sailing at Condition Three, the middle of five stages of alert, and its weapons systems were supposed to be fully manned and operational. But there was an inexplicable lapse, with key radars failing to detect the missile's launch and the Phalanx system remaining off. This was clearly a tragic failure for a vessel sailing in an area where more than 200 ships have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did This Happen? | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...missile to intercept incoming aircraft up to 90 miles away. Closer in, its Italian-made OTO gun can fire 3-in. antiaircraft shells at a rate of 90 a minute, dealing sequentially with as many as three incoming intruders at a range of up to twelve miles. Rockets that spray radar- attracting aluminum chaff can divert incoming missiles, and the frigate's electronic defenses can deceive attackers by producing fake radar images of the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Attackers Become Targets | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...feeble in a missile warhead. But in space, packed into the closed end of a stubby barrel and tamped down with hundreds of thousands of metal pellets, the low-yield weapon could wreak havoc. Unlike a standard nuclear explosion, which would vaporize the pellets and barrel, this one would spray the pellets through space at speeds up to 100 times that of a high-velocity rifle bullet. These pellets could not only burst the decoy balloons that would accompany a swarm of warheads but also destroy incoming missiles before their warheads were released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Third Generation of Nukes | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...Because measles is a droplet infection, it mostly occurs in closed environments when little micro-droplets from breathing are carried along by dust or particles from hair spray," says Postel...

Author: By James Hare, | Title: Not Just for Kids Anymore: Measles Hit Dartmouth | 5/22/1987 | See Source »

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