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...Wednesday, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection had traced the source of the spill to a leaking underground heating oil tank which belonged to B.U., according to Carbo...
Peimer says she sees the restructuring as "a loss of attention to undergraduates" and the beginning of Radcliffe's evolution into a think tank or public policy center...
Signs of some suspected mine clusters can be spotted from the air by Apache helicopters. Explosive-sniffing dogs and tank-mounted rakes and rollers can help clear a path through a minefield, but many mines will have to be dug out by hand. Says General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff: "That's why an awful lot of soldiers have been spending a lot of time on their hands and knees learning the old-fashioned way" during training exercises in Germany. The difficulties of clearing mines are immensely multiplied if roads and fields are covered...
...relying heavily on surveillance equipment and training. Two J-STARS (for Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System) planes will keep watch over Bosnia while flying eight miles above either the Adriatic Sea or Hungary. Their computers can distinguish personnel and troop movements, even though they cannot, unaided, tell a tank from a car. According to plans, the locations of all concentrations of Balkan armor will be entered into the computer memory banks so the j-stars can track movements out of those areas. Apache helicopters will keep constant watch near U.S. troop units when the fog so common above Bosnian...
Supportive research for the G.O.P. revolution is provided by the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the think tank through which the Speaker's college course was funded. Though Gingrich is no longer connected formally with the foundation, his sympathetic attention to what it produces is enough to bring it support from people who see it as an indirect route to the Speaker's ear. "Of all the think tanks, that's one whose reports are not just going to sit on the shelf,'' says lobbyist Jim Tozzi, whose firm has helped tobacco and chemical firms fight government regulations. "If I give...