1. But the scientific principle of a much better way to find the mines has been established. 2. Carter and colleagues are finding mines using the same principles that govern how a microwave oven heats a plastic container of food. 3. Coming home to Montana after World War II, she found the mines closing down as easy veins played out. 4. If a mine is found, Army instructors repeat over and over, it should be marked clearly, to warn others who might follow. 5. That is more than adequate to find most mines, buried just inches below ground. 6. Police officials said the children found the mine on a freshly ploughed field and it exploded after they carried it to a nearby spring. 7. Plastic antipersonnel mines cannot be found by the hand-held metal detectors used to uncover anti-vehicle mines. 8. A land-mine caused a bus explosion in Armenia that killed six people, and two more mines were found Wednesday near the same spot, officials said. 9. Dogs also can help find mines. 10. Earlier this week, two mines were found near a Moscow highway frequently traveled by top government officials, but defused before they could explode. |