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University Police Sgt Larry Fennelly said yesterday that security guards in the Yard will mark illegally parked bikes with a tag warning the owner that the bike will be immobilized with Harvard's answer to the "Denver Boot" -an additional padlock if the offense is repeated...
...close to the ground during bad weather or at night. Then, while helping U.S. aces dodge hills and other obstacles, LANTIRN would spot enemy targets and automatically program air-to-ground missiles on an instantaneous search-and-destroy mission. To be sure, the LANTIRN program's price tag was $1 billion, but if it did what its designer, the Martin Marietta Corp. in Bethesda, Md., said it could do, it might have been worth the big bucks. Such a gadget would, for instance, have brought a speedy end to World War II's Battle of the Bulge, when...
...dike could then be built around the city, with a runoff canal leading directly to the sea. Finally, the plan calls for Bangkok's sagging water table to be refilled, a move that should stop the sinking process. City planners are pessimistic, however, because the final price tag could run to several times Bangkok's annual budget of $207 million...
Lazare Kaplan has now developed a way to dog-tag diamonds. It has patented a device that uses a laser beam to inscribe gems with a trademark and seven-digit number that is visible only under magnification. The company spent ten years developing the desk-size engraving device, which, it says, performs the delicate operation without affecting either the clarity or the color of the stones. The firm has leased one of its first six machines to a Japanese company and three of them to Manhattan's Gemological Institute of America, which will inscribe stones for jewelry retailers. Says...
Sliding into third base one game last week, Andy Van Slyke of the Cardinals could not see that Jim Morrison of the Pirates had missed the throw from the plate and was only pretending to tag him. Exasperated, Cards Third Base Coach Chuck Hiller tugged Van Slyke to his feet and sent him sprinting down the base line. But the rookie outfielder was waved out before he reached the plate. The reason for the rare judgment call? According to Rule 7.09 (i), a coach cannot "assist" a runner. Given the circumstances, the regulation seemed unnecessarily strict. In this season...