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...strange sonic "air quakes," aircraft buffs have been speculating for years about the existence of a secret U.S. spy plane they call Aurora. The speculation is over, says Jane's Defence Weekly. A definitive report prepared by the British military-affairs journal describes the stealthy craft as a triangular-shaped hypersonic jet fueled by liquid methane and capable of cruising at Mach 8 (5,280 m.p.h.), 2 1/2 times the world record. Jane's key piece of evidence: the report of an aircraft- recognition expert who actually saw the plane fly over a North Sea oil rig three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy in the Sky | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

Leverett Towers are topped with rows of white triangular shapes, which some call kites and others insist are golf tees. No one seems to know their purpose--one Leverett House custodian recently suggested they were only for decoration...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ugliest Buildings You'll Ever See | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

Boston's Suffolk County House of Correction, like the new Suffolk County Jail four miles away, is typical of the new design. Each housing unit is a self-contained triangular pod consisting of 30 to 60 cells on two floors overlooking a common room. Prisoners are separated into units according to their conduct rather than the seriousness of their crimes. Good behavior is rewarded with advancement through a series of increasingly privileged units, the highest of which allows inmates to spend the day in the common room, locked in with only one or two unarmed officers. Meals are shipped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gilded Cages | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...stuff of legends, pulp novels and late-night reruns of the Twilight Zone: a 140,000-sq.-mi. stretch of the Atlantic Ocean that seems to swallow unfortunate voyagers like a space-time warp. During the past 45 years, more than 100 ships and planes have disappeared in the triangular region -- roughly bounded by Bermuda, Southern Florida and the Greater Antilles -- often in circumstances as murky and mysterious as the storm-tossed sea itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Squadron | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

With elaborate fortifications in the sand, Saddam tried to fight his last war over again. His frontline troops built triangular forts, dug bunkers, sowed minefields, piled up barriers and filled ditches with oil. Attackers were to be channeled into killing zones targeted by Iraqi artillery, which was the strongest weapon Iraq had used against Iran. This time the static defense did not hold. Preoccupied with hanging on to newly conquered Kuwait, Saddam did not extend his fortifications more than a few miles beyond the Saudi-Kuwaiti border. Coalition forces easily outflanked the "Saddam line." Even along the gulf coast, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait Is Liberated | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

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