With the spectacular burst of recent productivity from scores of scientists around the world, the major actors in the ras saga have been filled in.

Seconds later it slagged and exploded in a spectacular burst of vaporized syn- thetic and metal.

Rockets transformed the dark blue velvet of an English night with trails of molten gold, then spectacular bursts of color.

Iraqi antiaircraft gunners fired hundreds of rounds tonight in a series of spectacular bursts that lit up the sky with red, white and orange flashes.

Pushed up by a spectacular burst of borrowing over the last two years, it has been the chief reason for the nation's strong economic growth.

It provides an excellent simulation of a real blaster beam, but it fires nothing more dangerous than a rather spectacular burst of light.

Above him, there was a spectacular burst, a skyrocket of blue and red and gold in a starburst, massive, exquisite.

A century ago, American women were experiencing a spectacular burst of energy and opportunity.

Then, in one spectacular burst of the old-time power, they uncoiled and scored five runs to tie the game.

"This time of year, you get spectacular bursts of energy," said Frode J. Hov, the course's founder and managing director, who grew up in this place.