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There is a cliche that anything can happen in the Beanpot. True or not, the cliche is a source of solace for McKinney, who faces the unsettling prospect of getting blown out by a superior Eagles squad...
...larger question, of course, is the adequacy -- moral, material and martial -- of America. A month ago, conventional wisdom had the U.S. being overtaken as a great power by Japan. Perhaps. But is making a superior Walkman a better index of technological sophistication than making laser bombs that enter hangars through the front door? Is a nation's ability to make VCRs a better index of power than the ability to defeat aggression...
...quoted Saddam as saying the battle would be decided by Iraq's superior will power and patience. "It is only a matter of time before the enemy becomes convinced it has done all it can and that the Iraqis are determined to confront it and triumph over it," he was quoted as saying...
Saddam has lost only a handful of his 700-plane air force against a vastly superior allied air fleet. His 545,000-strong ground force, including the powerful Republican Guard, remain firmly entrenched in Kuwait, and Saddam's threat of terrorism against his enemies does not appear diminished...
Virtually unchallenged by natural predators, billions of zebra-mussel larvae left their initial colonies in Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie and drifted into Lake Ontario. By attaching themselves to boats, some adventuresome mussels even managed to move upstream into Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. Similar outriders are expected to start showing up in smaller lakes and major rivers such as the Mississippi, the Susquehanna and the Hudson. "Within 20 years," predicts Margaret Dochoda, a biologist with the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, "the zebra mussel will likely have taken the entire East Coast...