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...just now starting to show up in commercial products. Examples: ceramic scissors that never rust or get dull, plastic lumber that is water-resistant and does not swell or warp like wood, and "metal" windows that keep excessive light and heat out of a house in summer and trap them inside during winter. In the U.S. the aerospace industry, including the military, is the biggest consumer of engineered materials, accounting for more than two-thirds of all use. The substances, used in door panels and floors, account for about 14% of a typical airplane's weight, in contrast...
...saves golden eagle from poacher's trap. Eagle saves boy from nasty fall off towering cliff. Evil poacher kidnaps boy, tries to force him to tell where eagle aerie is. Rescue team flies in and saves everybody, including a zoo's worth of exotic creatures the villain has also captured...
Choreographers Amy Schalet and Christine Van Kipnis avoid the common student trap of doing too much too often. They keep the dancing sweet and simple, well within the capabilities of the cast. Larry O'Keefe on piano and Ben Leeming on drums provide perfect, elegant musical accompaniment. They make effortless transitions between numbers, moving from rock to blues to soul...
More than a year before the U.S. invasion of Panama, Fidel Castro tried to booby-trap the operation he anticipated. Major Felipe Camargo, a former henchman of Manuel Noriega's, has told U.S. investigators that he met with Castro in February 1988 to plan resistance to any attack. Fidel suggested arming and training thousands of Panamanians into "dignity battalions," which were formed prior to the attack. Castro did not envision an outright victory over U.S. forces but a stalemate that would embarrass the superpower and last long enough to allow for a U.N.-mediated cease-fire, presumably with Noriega still...
...Sand Trap. Troops have no opportunity for randy R. and R. in Saudi cities, but they have found another use for their prophylactics. Soldiers are placing condoms over the muzzles of their machine guns to protect them from airborne sand. In World War II, ground troops sometimes used "French letters" to keep their guns from jamming in the European damp...