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When other Navy experts arrived to inspect the ship, they found that all but two of the nine mines arrayed at mid-deck were armed and, as one officer said, "ready to go." Luckily, one bullet that had pierced a mine had not set off its 250-lb. load of explosives. If it had, the other mines would presumably have ignited too. The crew might have been killed, and the long- sought evidence would have vanished...
...Racing: Yup, they also racegreyhounds in Boston. If you won't be embarrassedto tell your parents' friends that you frequentedthe dog tracks while at Harvard, load up thatwallet again and watch the mutts go 'round...
...fire fight: the battle over who should pay the spiraling health costs for victims of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Insurance regulators and special-interest lobbyists argue with increasing fervor that the companies that cover some 140 million Americans must shoulder a greater part of the growing AIDS load. For their part, insurance executives complain that one of their industry's fundamental principles, the right to evaluate risk, is under attack. The outcome of the struggle is also of vital interest to individual policyholders, who might see premiums rise as the deadly virus spreads through society...
...kiln yard his load was weighed. It came...
...concrete, lighted by air holes in the curved roofs. There is a door at either end, and Ray backed his truck in one. Inside the kiln, soot coated the walls. It was damp and smelled of wet chimney. Ray worked fast, standing on the truck bed, stacking his load on a base left by another woodcutter, filling the kiln up to the ceiling 5 ft. above his head. His safety depends on how well the previous woodcutter stacked his load. Once, warned by a slight noise, he had just enough time to jump away from a wall of wood...