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...million device resembles nothing so much as a clumsy overstuffed armchair without a seat. On earth it weighs 340 lbs., but in zero-g an MMU can fly like a bird. A squirt or two of nitrogen gas from any of its 24 small jet thrusters can propel it in any direction. Strapped into this flying chair, an astronaut need only work the handle-like controls built into the armrests...
...show of stupefying banality called Auto-man offers a fluorescent, blond Superman who is summoned up by a wimpish computer jock in moments of crisis. Automan owes more to I Dream of Jeannie than to computer science, however. Another new show, NBC's Riptide, has something for every armchair technocrat, including a klutzy orange robot with a display screen in its chest and a silly grin on its mute face...
...staggering variety of mythologic forms. Similarities between the designs of ancient America and Asia are not coincidental; prehistoric migrations apparently carried the seeds of cultures halfway round the world. In addition to illustrations of artifacts, the book offers a section on the main pre-Columbian sites that armchair archaeologists will find irresistible...
...solution to the problems. It is true that the Reagan Administration understands the nature of U.S. interests in Central America, but not how to protect them. Military might, even if temporarily successful, can only temporarily quell the deep social and economic problem burdening the regions. Although even for the armchair analyst these problems seem endlessly frustrating, it's important at least to address them regretfully, does...
...soup survived, and thieving camel drivers overcome are what a proper travel book requires. The author labors at gaudy landscapes because they make good backdrops for sketches of himself in jaunty poses; the reader tolerates this hamminess because tales of bandits and dysentery make him feel snug in his armchair. Writing such stuff is an honest dodge, and in recent years no one has dodged more expertly than Paul Theroux in The Great Railway Bazaar (Europe and Asia) and The Old Patagonian Express (North and South America...