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...watch is, to all appearances, an ordinary timepiece. But tucked into a small cylinder that blends with its gray titanium casing is a 2-ft. antenna. To activate the beacon, you unscrew the cap and unreel the antenna. Approved for use in Europe and Asia (and, pending FCC approval, in the U.S.), the $5,000 Swiss watch also keeps pretty good time...
...working in an open garage, his green Lexus clearly visible. Cunanan killed Miglin, stole the Lexus and abandoned it when he heard radio reports that the Philadelphia police were tracking Miglin's cell phone. Frantically, he ripped the ceiling lining of the car in an attempt to stifle the antenna. Then he killed William Reese, a cemetery caretaker in New Jersey, to take his Chevy pickup. Gianni Versace may have met Cunanan before the killing, but the murderer may also have been targeting other celebrities. Sylvester Stallone told TIME, "I was notified by the FBI that Cunanan had spoken...
...first the J.P.L. controllers had no indication that the ship had survived this inelegant landing--and the engineers didn't expect one. The only antenna capable of transmitting through the ship's cocoon of balloons was a single, whiplike stalk protruding from between two of the bags. If Pathfinder landed upside down, however, the antenna would be crushed against the ground. It would then be at least two hours before the bags could deflate and one of three metal petals that make up the sides of the ship could open, turning the entire structure upright. Only then could a more...
...turned out, Pathfinder rolled to a stop in precisely the right position, with its base down and its antenna up. Inside mission control, Manning squinted at his monitor and saw that contact with the ship had been maintained. "A signal is barely visible," he announced with a grin. The controllers burst into cheers...
...station has surmounted the problem by literally getting around the other signals. "We put our antenna on top of the tallest building in Cambridge," he says. "There aren't many stations that can block...