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...ignore very small things. In a week in which most of us were concentrating on such snack-size fare as whether Fred Thompson stumbled in his first presidential debate or how many hours Joe Torre, the weary manager of the New York Yankees, has left on the job, Paul Allen was concerning himself with decidedly larger matters--life in the cosmos, to be exact...
...Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, owner of the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks, and one of the developers of the first private spacecraft, has never lacked for ways to stay busy, but in 2001 he joined with the University of California, Berkeley, and the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute to install a set of 42 dish antennas in Hat Creek, Calif. The so-called Allen Telescope Array (ATA), which was scheduled to go live on Oct. 11, does what conventional radio telescopes do. That is to say, it listens to the faint whisper of radio signals from...
...Allen's financial contribution to the project was laundry money to the likes of him--$25 million, a bargain price made possible by increases in computing power and the small (18 ft., or about 5 1?2 m) size of each dish, which makes them easy to mass-produce. But $25 million is still hard to come by when you have to tell your banker that you're using it to hunt for aliens, which is why it's nice to be a man who doesn't need a banker...
...have to be the most poignant section of an actor's r?sum?. George had been cast in a meaty role in Primary Colors but director Mike Nichols replaced him with Larry Hagman. Then there are parts that could have been bigger than they were. Eager to work with Woody Allen, George signed up for Small Time Crooks, where he was in exactly one scene. (Even there he was hard to spot: viewers got a good look at his left ear but not much else.) I'd love to direct you to the DVD or VHS of The Adams Chronicles...
...Corddry's exasperated description of his secret for a happy marriage ("Sit back, relax and wait for the sweet embrace of death"). I also appreciated Eddie's flailing argument for dumping his bride for another woman. "The heart wants what it wants," he says, quoting Woody Allen's remark to Walter Isaacson of TIME during the 1992 scandal involving the filmmaker's affair with his stepdaughter Soon...