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Moreover, while competition is all but unknown in the civilian sector, more than one design bureau might be asked to develop the same weapon. After years of close cooperation with the military establishment, several "families" of weapons producers have evolved. The Sukhoi and Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureaus, for example, produce Sukhoi and MiG jet fighters. Missiles are the specialty of the Yangel, Chelomei and Nadiradze bureaus. Often, test models from rival firms will be put into production simultaneously. The result: in a country where the selection of shoes or overcoats is limited, there are six different types of interceptor jets...
Though he has acted in movies before (such as portraying the farmer in the poignant but relatively unknown film Days of Heaven, Shepard came into the public eye when he played Chuck Yeager in the film rendition of the Tom Wolfe novel, The Right Stuff. Shepard explains why he accepted the role despite his disillusionment with Hollywood: his father was a pilot in the airforce, and as a friend of director Philip Kaufman, he decided that he wanted to take the part...
...large part, this crisis of truly unknown danger is the long-term result of the lax requirements of the little-known Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the law which governs the registration and use of pesticides. Dating from the 1940s, FIFRA has allowed many chemicals to be widely used despite a lack of information about their health effects. In recent years, its provisions have been strengthened, and pesticides introduced now do have to undergo thorough testing. A process of re-registration, carrying out and verifying new tests for chemicals approved under old standards, was also loosely mandated...
...Eighty percent of the history of life was unknown before he started his research," a colleague and a former student of Barghoorn's Associate Professor of Biology Andrew H Knoll, said yesterday, adding that Barghoorn was the catalyst for the research over the past two decades...
...other major pre-show event will be the dress rehearsal on February 21, called "Strawberry Night" for unknown reasons. The dress rehearsal performance is given annually for Hasty Pudding Club alumni. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1934 Pudding production of Hades the Ladies, which was directed by Alistair Cooke of Masterpiece Theater fame, so during intermission on Strawberry Night, Cooke and members of the cast of 1934 will perform some numbers and dances from their show...