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...have been reported buying up jewels -- principally diamonds -- in Antwerp, Amsterdam and Hong Kong. U.S. agents don't think these buyers are Christmas shopping. "You can transport millions of dollars' worth of diamonds in your back pocket," says an investigator. Furthermore, diamonds don't rot when stored in the underground caches favored by Colombian dons...
First scientists must eliminate other sources of radiation that may trigger false signals in the gallium. (To shield the experiment from cosmic rays, the detectors are installed in an underground tunnel, beneath a mile of rock.) About the only thing harder than proving that solar neutrinos passed through the gallium-filled tanks is proving that they didn...
That offers little comfort to Israeli citizens. Residents were dismayed to learn that their air-raid shelters would prove useless, since heavier-than-air poison gas seeps into underground shelters and lingers there. Many were incredulous when an expert explained that a cloth soaked in water and baking soda could serve as a makeshift breathing mask...
...great, undiscovered reservoirs throughout the globe. Speaking in Cairo last June at a water summit organized by the Washington-based Global Strategy Council, Farouk El-Baz of Boston University raised hopes among African nations when he announced that an analysis of remote sensing data has revealed unsuspected supplies of underground water in the dryest part of the Egyptian Sahara. El- Baz believes there may be twice as much water stored underground worldwide as previously assumed...
Hard-core rappers who fall for the Hammer are hard to find. Public Enemy's Chuck D is strongly in his corner, but Hammer has been called out by the rap press ("cheesy, pop-oriented production") and torched by fellow rappers from Digital Underground to M.C. Serch and 3rd Bass, who kept the heat high in the pointedly titled Gas Face. Hammer handles such criticism with equanimity. "Rather than cross over ((into the pop market)), let's say that I expanded," he suggests. "My music caught on because the people are ready...