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After the Battle of Dunkirk, though, he was interned as an enemy alien and shipped to Australia...
Goodwin grabs her brush from its “Hello Kitty” container. “That’s O.K.,” she says. “Fungus would go with the whole alien thing...
...stop this now!"--and without much fanfare, it was stopped. The quest to put an American woman in space devolved into bureaucratic infighting and congressional subcommittee meetings, complete with cameos by John Glenn and Scott Carpenter and predictable old-boy jokes about the need for women to populate alien planets. In the end the Soviets would be the first to put a woman in space--in 1963, 20 years before Sally Ride blasted off in Challenger...
...their attention to detail: human faces with more than 40 working muscles; characters that lip-synch their lines no matter what language they are speaking; objects like mattresses and wooden frames that, when shot, explode and shatter in the precise directions you'd expect. The plot involves a hostile alien takeover of the strangely named human habitation City 17, but that, like all the clever physics, is merely a means to the end of scaring the bejesus out of players. Easily the most terrifying creature is the Stalker, a War of the Worlds--style giant with 50-ft. legs...
...owner. Besides hissing, they also sizzle. Last week, Bangkok health authorities seized more than 200 of the roaches from pet shops, doused them with DDT and chucked them into a waste incinerator. Madagascar cockroaches were banned in Thailand last year, deemed a threat to national biosecurity. "They are an alien species that could damage the country's ecological system," explains Ampon Kittiampon of Thailand's Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives. Pet owners have lost a friend?and gourmands are losing a chance to eat a bug big enough to be a meal in itself...