Word: flashlights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radar has a serious drawback: its signal is a blazing electronic beacon that can make the transmitter as much the hunted as the hunter. "Like a flashlight in a dark forest, radar can spotlight certain trees," says Theodore Postol, an electronics expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "But everybody in the woods...
Engineer Steven Whipple, hailed as a hero of the rescue, said he was checking the fallen double-deck free-way for stability on Saturday when he spotted the back of Helm's head with his flashlight, and then saw a hand wave...
...back to the books for a quick course on streamside biology, matching the hatch, figuring out what the trout is eating and which artificial flies imitate those insects. Armed with a little entomology and inflamed with trout psychosis, you start buying everything that countless catalogs offer: stream thermometers, a flashlight for nighttime fishing, hook- sharpening files, dozens of flies no fish has ever seen...
WHAT exactly happened to two Black Harvard students around 9 p.m. last Tuesday night remains muddled. Witnesses say the pair had run to catch a University shuttle bus when, upon boarding, several police cars blocked the van and a Black police officer shined a flashlight in their faces and ordered them to get off. The pair were then searched without explanation and, after officers found nothing, were left without notice of why they were stopped, the students...
David A. Battat '90, chair of the newly formed council committee, led Michael N. Lichten, director of the Office of Project Management, through the Yard, shining a flashlight into areas of the Yard which he said were "poorly...