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Kolakowski, an investigator for the Wayne County sheriff's department in Detroit, went online with the screen name Melissa83 about a year ago as bait for pedophiles who, in Detroit as elsewhere, tend to prey on naive, rebellious kids from broken homes. But Melissa is only one of the alter egos Kolakowski has invented. Some days he masquerades online as a teenage boy looking for an assault rifle, or a sports junkie betting on the Wolverines, or an old dude with erectile dysfunction shopping for a quick Viagra...
...tailor-made nuclear explosions to pulverize a small asteroid or deflect a larger one. Given enough time, and under the proper circumstances, less drastic measures would be needed. Some schemes call for conventional explosives alone, or anchoring a rocket motor or a solar sail on an asteroid to alter its orbit enough to allow it to safely bypass Earth...
...causes. Moreover, he heads an entity with its own foreign policy goals: from a desire to protect the religious sites and fast-vanishing Christians of the Holy Land, to long-held support of a Palestinian homeland, to the recent rapprochement with Israel--goals that the Pontiff could not alter simply to wow an audience. The strictly spiritual stops on the trip were interspersed with so many loaded encounters, shifting on an almost hourly basis--If this is Thursday it must be...Barak? Holocaust survivors? The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem?--that the Pope seemed like an FBI trainee...
...being discovered. Harris, a multimillionaire after founding (and selling) the consulting firm Jupiter Communications, has left the day-to-day operations of Pseudo to produce a show for the Web. It's a knock-off of MTV's The Real World, based on his downtown art friends and his alter ego, a scary, clownlike cult leader named Luvvy. Harris, of course, hopes eventually to get this on prime-time network television. Harris is out of his gourd...
...proposed changes to the RCAA bylaws would make the group a "board governance body," Bundles said and give the management board itself the power to alter its name and purpose...