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...that make them look bigger than they are. Such a decoy is hard to distinguish from a real bomber, and an attacking interceptor or missile is apt to "lock onto" it and let the bomber escape. Nature thought of this trick long before man did. Many lizards shed their tails when they are hotly pursued. The pursuer captures only the tail; the rest of the lizard escapes and grows another tail...
When it looks as if a potential enemy has developed quick, automatic devices for breaking a radar's code, more complicated electronic codes must be devised. Some missiles have abandoned radar in favor of heat-sensitive eyes that guide them to the hot tail pipes of an enemy airplane. One answer to this dodge is to release decoys with powerful flares to attract the missile...
...insects do fairly well without any wind. Dr. Hocking calculates that desert locusts can fly 217 miles at 5.6 m.p.h. Best of all are monarch butterflies, which can fly 650 miles at 6.2 m.p.h. They can stay in the air so long that a good tail wind would help them across the Atlantic without refueling...
...worked for 14 months. I get my living by thieving." As credentials, he could and did cite 23 convictions, two turns in Dartmoor Prison, and the invention of the "jump-up"-an athletic hijacking technique accomplished by jumping from the hood of a moving car over the tail gate of a truck just ahead...
...Cadillac this way, why can't you do the same for an education?" McDonald asked. His question referred to statements made on television Sunday by Dean Bundy and Adlai Stevenson, who criticized Americans for devoting too much "social capital to tail fins and not enough to education...