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...built to carry nuclear bombs and launch cruise missiles. It can fly long distances at high altitudes and supersonic speeds (750 m.p.h. or more). But once the plane nears enemy territory, it can dive down to an altitude of about 500 ft. and hop through enemy terrain toward its target. Its wings are mobile, sweeping back during high speeds but extending outward during landings and at low speeds to increase lift...
...returning men are rebuilding the fallen roofs and tumbled walls of their former homes. They dig tunnels and enlarge caves to accommodate dwellings, schools and medical clinics; they farm by night, when no MiGs or helicopter gunships fly overhead; they use homemade weapons and their knowledge of the difficult terrain to foil the relentless ground attacks of the Soviets. Robert Schultheis, an American freelance writer, spent ten weeks with the men who went back to Dobanday, a once prosperous village that was leveled by the Soviets in 1978. His report...
...internal computer, which was programmed with a detailed map of the route to the target area. The map included the shape of various landmasses and buildings along the way. At selected points once the Tomahawk reached land, the radar system in its nose compared the actual terrain with the internal map; then the computer would periodically correct the missile's course. This constant readjustment enabled it to zero in precisely on target...
Despite his ineptitudes, Erdosain is astute enough to sense that "on a deeper level than consciousness and thought, there's a whole other life, more powerful and vast." The Seven Madmen staked Arlt's claim to a terrain that others, including Borges and Garcia Marquez, continue to explore. -By Paul Gray
Promoters planted the first palm tree here in the 1880s. At the same time, real estate agents were known to pin oranges on Joshua trees, claiming this had been a terrain given over to orange groves since beyond memory. At the beginning of this year, the median sales price for an existing house in greater Los Angeles was $114,200-in the nation, it was $71,800. But who can find a "median" home? The other day, on a quiet street in Santa Monica, a FOR SALE sign went up in front of a three-bedroom, one-bath, fake stucco...