Word: thar
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...story of how India revived the nuclear nightmare begins in December 1995. The government of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao is secretly readying an underground nuclear test when U.S. spy satellites orbiting over the Thar Desert in Rajasthan near the Pakistani border snap pictures of thick electric cables being installed in a hole at the Pokhran test site. The Clinton Administration leaks word of the preparations to the press, then dispatches a diplomatic team to confront the Indian government with the satellite photos. Rao is forced to abort the test...
...better-informed, less gullible and more independent populace. Along with playing in garage bands, Generation Xers have started garage companies--virtual cottage industries in a time of downsizing conglomerates. And these start-ups are creating exciting and lucrative careers, not more McJobs. Yes, "there's gold in them thar hills," and X marks the spot. MARKUS DIERSBOCK Marblehead, Mass...
...gold fields ever discovered. Rumors first began to swirl on March 17 of this year, when a senior company geologist fell from a helicopter under suspicious circumstances. That same week, New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold reported what was confirmed Sunday: that there was no gold in them thar hills. Share prices plummeted more than 80 percent following that announcement. When the outside gold was added, and by whom, is not yet clear. Bre-X, which itself hired Strathcona, has promised to launch an investigation...
Easterns brings together the eight schools in the Ivy League, plus Army and Navy. The Crimson has already competed against and defeated all of these teams this season. There is one thing thar could be as sweet as the championship itself, through--a victory against last year's champion, Princeton...
...last week the scientific equivalent of "thar she blows" echoed around the world. The news came from several hundred particle hunters working at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, who presented compelling evidence that not one but 12 top quarks had briefly surfaced inside a mammoth detector in their...