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...Gang of Eight was caught between the feud and the change. Its coup looked like Stalin's ruthlessness written on the fifth carbon, a smudgy, illegible piece of work. It was fitting that stupidity should be a prevailing theme. An oafish brainlessness has for decades hung over the Soviet communist venture like one of Nikita Khrushchev's suits. Its secret has never been intelligence but rather ruthlessness. The cardinal rule of coupmaking, says Edward Luttwak of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, is "to seize control of all the centers of power in one fell swoop, to paralyze...
...cracks in most of the welds of the Navy's futuristic SSN-21 Seawolf-class submarine, the first of which is under construction in Groton, Conn. The responsibility seems to belong to the Navy, which set standards for welding a new high-tensile steel that apparently permitted too much carbon in the welding rod. Though the hull was 15% completed when the problem was detected, builders may have to start from scratch using new steel. There are serious doubts whether the $2.5 billion sub-killing craft will ever...
Mountain bikes, also known as all-terrain bikes (ATBs), borrow sophisticated metal alloys, titanium lugs, carbon-fiber tubing and other materials from the aerospace industry for lightweight strength. Average weight: 28 lbs., vs. 20 lbs. for a far more fragile touring bike. Perhaps most important, ATBs feature flat handlebars for upright seating and thick tires that take to sand and gravel as easily as to pavement. While these features have practical appeal for rough-riding wilderness cyclists, the changes also take the hassle out of bike riding for ordinary pedal pushers who never stray more than a mile...
...waste, they're burning fossil fuels, contributing to acid rain, urban smog and the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In that regard, American utilities have a lot to answer for. The U.S., with 5% of the world's population, produces a quarter of the global output of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas, of which fully one-third comes directly from the smokestacks of the companies that supply Americans with their heat and electric power...
...happens, Saddam Hussein has already become the most significant player on the world environmental scene in 1991. At a time when nations are trying to muster the will to control greenhouse gases and thus reduce the threat of global climate change, Saddam's eco-terrorism raised the amount of carbon dioxide that humans are pumping into the atmosphere by up to 2%. Kuwait's fires are putting out as much CO2 as all the cars, homes and industries of France. While these emissions will stop when the fires are put out, the gas will remain aloft for 100 years. Trying...