Word: sun
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...FEVER by J.G. Ballard (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 182 pages; $18.95). Although he became known as a writer of science fiction, that term has never adequately defined J.G. Ballard, whose works include Empire of the Sun (1984), an autobiographical novel (he was born in Shanghai in 1930, to British parents) of childhood in a Japanese-occupied region of China. This new collection of 14 stories reinforces the impression that the author neither should nor can be categorized...
...contrast to playing the national pastime for a full season in the cold weather of New England, the Harvard batsmen will play eleven games in eight days under the warm Florida sun. The journey South is an annual event for the baseball team, which traditionally ventures South before embarking on their Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League schedule...
...Sun: Spring Break will not be all fun and games for the Crimson, which faces Army and Pennsylvania over the holiday period...
That joyful scene was staged amid the ruins of what had been a gleaming metropolis. It was backlighted by towering orange flames on the horizon where hundreds of oil wells, torched by fleeing Iraqis, continued to burn and block the midday sun with huge curtains of dense black smoke. The eerie pall was a visible symbol of the dark ordeal Kuwait had lived through during the Iraqi occupation and a final, horrifying week of murder, kidnapping and destruction...
Before they settled in to form a long defensive cordon, the French units had their hour in the sun of gulf victories. Together with some U.S. paratroop and artillery units, a French regiment with dune-dodging Gazelle helicopter gunships carrying HOT air-to-ground missiles led an attack on a fortified position, code-named Rochambeau, 30 miles inside Iraq. Defenders resisted for some time, but hundreds of them raised white flags as soon as they spied the approach of French tanks. As in a Foreign Legion adventure film of old, the force ended up neutralizing a division of some...