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...Iraqi woman, her clothes on fire, running, stumbling, screaming at the injustice of her fate? Intellectually, I will accept responsibility, for the saturation bombing of Iraq is part of a wrenching decision that my country made openly and democratically with my full complicity. But can I steel my emotions? A ground war in Kuwait will only be worse. Can I bear to watch a TV clip of a 22-year- old sergeant, a former Oklahoma high school running back, being ripped apart by an Iraqi mine? Turning away would be cowardly, and a government that sanitized such gore to soothe...
...running over rough terrain, thanks to a built-in ballistic computer and sophisticated stabilizers. Both models carry a chemical fire-suppression system that can put out a flame in a quarter of a second and are shielded by armor plates containing nonradioactive uranium 2 1/2 times as dense as steel. But some specialists fear that the tanks, which rely on computerized controls and finicky electronics, could be undone by desert dust. Another worry: that their gas-guzzling turbine engines could run dry in mid-battle...
...heavy steel cranes that have come to dominate the Harvard Square skyline over the past year will soon be gone as the construction on the new buildings in the area slowly come to a completion this semester...
...remains of a community center. At the base of the center's outer wall, there is a crater 16 feet deep and 25 feet long. The two foot thick concrete walls of the center's bomb shelter have been disenterred and cracked into an infinite number of tiny pieces. Steel rods, separated from the concrete walls they had once reinforced, are strewn all over the place. Soldiers are down in the crater, exhuming shrapnel...
...costly mistake. The United Steel Workers of America filed a class- action suit in 1982 under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Federal courts ruled that the company had acted illegally and ordered Continental to compensate its retired workers. Last week Continental finally reached an agreement under which it will pay $415 million to 3,000 people, the largest settlement in the 17-year history of ERISA...