Among the causes postulated for the veterans' illnesses are exposure to burning desert oil fields, contamination by Iraqi chemical or biological agents, vaccines given prior to departure for the Gulf, insecticides and repellents, sand, and fumes from the paint used to recoat vehicles and equipment with desert rather than jungle camouflage. It is the first in a series of high-powered computers intended to help the government maintain its nuclear arsenal without violating the United Nations' Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, signed by the United States last September. The computers will design and carry out mathematical simulations of nuclear-weapons detonations. Next in the series, scheduled for complete delivery by 1998, are Option Blue Pacific, for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in California, and Option Mountain Blue, for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in New Mexico. The young Moon sets early and so will not obscure the display.
Winter officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere, even as daylight starts to lengthen.
The conditions of success are often too minute for observation. The life is full of terrible anxieties, especially in what is called 'hard times,' when money is difficult to get. The penalty of failure is tremendous, and yet the number of us who are ready to tell the capitalist how to carry on his business, how to pay his men, whom to employ, and on what terms, is very large. If those who can carry on business themselves were only one thousandth part as numerous as those who can tell how it ought to be carried on by others, the happiness of man would be well assured. All rights reserved.