Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some three dozen nuclear satellites over the past two decades. Altogether they contain almost 3,500 lbs. of radioactive fuel. The only way to halt that proliferation would be to make space nukes an issue in U.S.-Soviet arms-control talks. Warns Brown: "If we don't stop the use of nuclear-power sources traveling over our heads, we're likely to wake up one day with a nuclear reactor landing on our heads...
...funny send-up of android sci-fi, featuring a voluptuous male-fantasy robot (named, naturally, Dolly) who is much nicer than any of the humans around her. In the title story, an actress in a grade-B theatrical company falls for an odd, possibly psychotic lawyer who wants to use her in a complicated revenge and moneymaking scheme. Her only onstage talent is her ability to scream convincingly; at the end, she screams for real but also for a reason impossible to guess beforehand. Ingalls, an American living in London, has built a cult following through her six previous books...
Critics swiftly broiled Hightower's plan, which calls for greater use of natural production systems. Reason: hormone-free feeding could add more than 15% to the cost of beef...
...road to check on another bust before returning to Houston to face the mountain of paperwork that accompanies an operation of this magnitude. Leach, Gavitt and the other agents gravitate to their jobs because of the sense of accomplishment they get from protecting America's vanishing wildlife. "I used to feel uncomfortable about making friends with people and busting them, but I'm not out to cause people trouble; I'm here to protect wildlife," says Leach. Gavitt notes that many people doing the most damage to wildlife use sophisticated scams, not easily investigated by overt means. In these cases...
Besieged by armies of hunters, many herds are literally on the run. Conservationists use the phrase "refugee elephants" to describe animals fleeing Mozambique to crowd into protected areas in Zimbabwe. The killing of older animals with the biggest tusks threatens to reduce herds to what Tanzanian game manager Constantius Mlay describes as collections of naive teenagers without the wise old elephants needed as leaders in times of drought and food scarcity...