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Since silk was being diverted to parachutes, weendured thick cotton lisle stockings instead ofsilk, unless we had a boyfriend who could buy ussilk stockings at the PX. Most of us opted forsaddle shoes and bobby sox. We wore genteelknee-length skirts, with tailored white blousesand baggy wool sweaters. Never were we allowed towear slacks to class unless there was a ragingblizzard outside...
...waiting for his damn cell phone to ring. The reporters rushing past him on their way to the daily Monica stakeout, he knew, were missing out on a more important story. Zang is an antitrust lawyer for New York attorney general Dennis Vacco, and that briefcase bore a thick stack of documents ready to be filed by 20 states in uneasy tandem with the Justice Department's antitrust suit against the world's most powerful software company: Microsoft...
Chermayeff, who fell in love with the sea as a child on Massachusetts' Cape Cod, is proudest of how his new aquarium lets you see distinct environments united into one, interconnected oceanic whole. Fourteen-inch-thick acrylic walls separate the habitats with their murres and penguins from the pelagic sharks, jacks and clouds of schooling mackerel. The animals seem to live alongside, yet are safely away from, the predatory ocean dwellers. "The wonderful thing is that it all starts to connect and take on a richness," says Chermayeff. Indeed, it's possible to look past puffins and otters...
...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...
...might to make out what he's saying. I can't pick up so much as a word. But luckily, he begins translating; apparently, there's an English-only couple in his group. And although I'm having trouble wading through his thick accent, I'm almost sure I hear him say something about swimming tests and ice cream...