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...pound PC portable is similar in function and capability to the PC, but is a one piece unit that folds into an oversized briefcase...
...army can do more for a nation than just protect it. Instead, the Swiss see their army as a reversed social institution, bringing together citizens from different regions, who often speak different languages, for the common goal of defending Swiss neutrality. This, McPhee implies, is the army's real function in Switzerland, and should perhaps be its task elsewhere...
Ozone, a highly unstable union of three oxygen atoms, provides the vital function of absorbing most of the sun's ultraviolet radiation. It is continuously being formed in the stratosphere, when regular oxygen molecules interact with ultraviolet radiation...
...puzzled by everything that was going on in Moscow, there was no mood of crisis in the Soviet capital. The two younger Politburo members who are most frequently mentioned as possible successors to Chernenko certainly did not seem to be worried. Grigori Romanov, 61, flew off to attend a function in Ethiopia, and Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, left on an official visit to neighboring Bulgaria. They would hardly have left town if a power struggle were under way in the Kremlin...
Churches were able to function, under tight supervision, until all religious groups were banned during the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath (1966-76). Even the T.S.P.M. vanished. Thousands of clergy and church members were shipped to labor camps, and perhaps hundreds were executed. But underground Protestantism not only survived but grew into the house-church movement...