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...international community has put Saddam under a form of house arrest. His air force cannot fly to the south; his army cannot march in the north; he dares not venture for too long into the sunlight for fear of encountering a smart bomb or a dumb bullet with his name on it. Led by the U.S., the U.N. is using sanctions, inspections and the threat of military retribution to whittle down the scope of his authority to his palace and his bunker. The hope in Washington is that sooner or later, someone in Saddam's inner circle, or more likely...
...bulldozers and cranes needed to remove the Northwest's oldest trees--as an example of this absurd attempt to fool those opposed to the clearcutting: "The Facts Say: Forests do not necessarily improve with age. Decaying stands lack the food resources animals require. Density of old stands blocks sunlight, discouraging new growth...
...other liquid cleaners in Smart Packs that take up 65% less landfill space than the jet-spray containers they are designed to refill. Imperial Chemical Industries of London has developed a plastic, soon to be distributed in the U.S., that biodegrades with or without exposure to air and sunlight...
...explanation for why dinosaurs vanished from the earth so abruptly after having dominated the planet for the preceding 70 million years. The tremendous plume of smoke and dust thrown into the atmosphere by the space intruder's impact, equivalent to perhaps a million hydrogen bombs, would have blocked out sunlight for months. The globe would have gone into a dark, deep freeze, killing first the plants and then the giant lizards that fed on them, directly or indirectly -- paving the way for mammals, and eventually humans, to take over...
...emergence into sunlight comes gradually. "You don't take something and wake up the next morning," cautions Dr. Herbert Y. Meltzer, director of the Biological Psychology Laboratory at Case Western Reserve's affiliated University Hospitals and one of the leading U.S. authorities on clozapine. "You see small, steady changes." Still, the 10% of patients who experience a dramatic awakening can be overwhelmed by the bright glare of reality and by the grief of having lost so much time to mental illness. To help patients with this "Rip Van Winkle syndrome," the Case Western group has learned that each small step...