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...Carlos de la Rapita, Spain, July 11,1978. An overloaded 38-ton tank truck carrying 1,518 cu. ft. of combustible propylene gas skidded around a bend in the road and slammed into a wall, sending 100-ft.-high flames into a campsite where 780 tourists were eating, sunbathing and swimming. The death toll...
...heavens and a mural that actually fades before the eyes. From the base of these structures, the reader learns about the look and feel of the Renaissance and about the restless intelligence of an artist who even noted, in his famous mirror writing, the audacious discovery EVOM TON SEOD NUS EHT. A warning: pop-ups are for the very young. This year juvenile readers with a deeper interest in art should turn to a far more comprehensive volume...
Among all the scientific anxieties, however, Prince|ton Economics Professor Uwe Reinhardt takes a determinedly cheerful view of the prospects. "Where is the crisis?" he says. "I have yet to see any real signs of it." Reinhardt predicts that healthcare costs could grow from the present 10.8% of G.N.P. to 12% or 13% before public opposition became serious...
...museum contains exhibits on landmark machines such as the UNIVAC, the first American commercial computer, and the largest computer ever built, a 175-ton mammoth used in the U.S. Air Force air defense system...
...morning sky over the azure waters of the Persian Gulf and firing an Exocet missile into a neutral ship. After a 22-day lull in the Iran-Iraq tanker war, an Iraqi pilot last week claimed another victim, the 25th of the conflict. World Knight, a 258,437-ton tanker owned by Hong Kong Shipping Magnate Sir Y.K. Pao, was bound for Kharg Island to pick up Iranian crude oil. Two British officers and four Chinese seamen were killed immediately as the Exocet demolished the ship's aft superstructure. Two more Chinese and one Indian died later. The toll...