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...most popular exhibit seems to be a zigzagging channel of water that acts as a slide, transporting sponges and submarines from one tank of water to another...
Catherine, 10, from Boston, says that she approves of the sliding tank mainly "because they [the sponges] move around on their own. It's not hard to do, like the bubble one," she says...
Another, Leah, age 4 and visiting Boston from New York City's Bronx, said she liked the water slide because "it's so hot I think I might just jump in. I might bump my head though," she said about the 3 foot diameter tank...
...commander and former military attache in Moscow, says the Soviet pullback "doesn't count for too much in a military sense," since the division that was withdrawn could return on short notice. General Chai Chengwen, first deputy chairman of the Beijing Institute for International Strategic Studies (BIISS), a think tank connected with the National Defense Ministry, says, "The Soviet Union is looking for excuses to delay its withdrawal from Afghanistan." From Deng on down, Chinese spokesmen say that Kampuchea, still occupied by Moscow's Vietnamese allies, remains the main obstacle...
Janet Wells took over the Sistersville Tank Works in West Virginia to save her job. Wells, a bookkeeper, bought the company in 1984 in partnership with her daughter Darlene just as the firm was about to fold. Says Wells: "The men didn't think we would last for six weeks. But there weren't any other jobs around, so they stuck with us." The company, which builds storage tanks and provides field services for Amoco, DuPont, Union Carbide and other clients, has more than tripled its sales under the ownership of the two women, from $1 million...