Word: wounded
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...almost complete absence of juvenile dinosaurs, especially babies, from the fossil record. He went back to Montana the following summer, with the idea of spending his vacation searching for babies in some likely shales, in the company of a beer-drinking, fossil- hunting pal named Bob Makela. They wound up one Sunday morning helping the owner of a rock shop in Bynum identify some of her fossils. Among them was a coffee can full of bones from a recent dig, including a fragment of a thumb- size femur. "You're not going to believe this," Horner remarked to Makela when...
...nuclear complex, have been strengthened. Military intelligence claims that it can detect in advance any Iraqi preparations for a missile launch. But officials do not believe that Iraq has the technological ability to loft chemical warheads inside Israel's borders. In the worst case, say experts, Iraq can wound but not cripple the Jewish state...
...risk everywhere. And then there are the hostages, 3,500 Americans held against their will in Iraq and Kuwait. Of all the potential political threats to Bush, this is the greatest. The sight of yellow ribbons, already a staple of the evening news, will fester like an open wound. Terrified of the nightmare that doomed Jimmy Carter's presidency, the White House is straining to avoid the H word. To no avail, of course. The U.S. knows a hostage when it sees...
...supporting the cartel? Anyone who buys cocaine. But foreign governments help too. Earlier this year, Colombia disclosed that Israel had sold a large consignment of automatic weapons to Antigua, purportedly for its army. The guns wound up on one of Rodriguez Gacha's country ranches, where they were confiscated after his death. Chemicals needed to refine cocaine, once ordered from the U.S. and Western Europe, now come from Brazil and Ecuador, which are also becoming new production centers...
...summit, Bush proposed another compromise: NATO would consider nukes "weapons of last resort." Just how much change that represents is unclear. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft says it merely implies using nuclear weapons "later rather than earlier." Thatcher and Mitterrand fought against it nonetheless, and the communique wound up throwing the "last resort" doctrine into the future; it would be adopted only "with the total withdrawal" of Soviet forces stationed in Eastern Europe. That satisfied Thatcher that any change was merely semantic, and she signed. Mitterrand had misgivings even then, but went along for the sake of alliance solidarity...