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...BLOB The frog that bit Richards was found in the Kikori River area, in Southern P.N.G. LISTEN...
...make a moral, life-or-death decision while streaking across the Lebanese sky at twice the speed of sound? That is the excruciating dilemma that Israeli pilots say they face dozens of times every day during air raids over Lebanon. If a fighter pilot sees the fiery blob of rockets being launched toward Israeli cities, should he go ahead and blast the target - even though it might kill Lebanese women and children near the site where Hizballah militiamen are launching their rockets...
...computer, Aagaard first conjures up the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which started, many scientists think, along a spur of the San Andreas some 60 miles south of San Francisco. Across a Landsat image of the Bay Area, Aagaard's simulation takes the form of a spreading blob of mixed colors that indicate shaking intensities, from low-intensity blue to medium-intensity yellow and high-intensity red. Then Aagaard calls up 1906. The difference is immediately apparent. This time red flows across the landscape like a river of lava, and among the places that glow the brightest is the area around...
...intensity of the flicker told the scientists how small the planet was- too small to be a gaseous blob like Neptune- and therefore probably made of rock and ice; the timing told them it?s about three times further from its star than we are from the sun. Its surface temperature is probably below ?360 degrees F, much too frigid to sustain life...
...Warm Blob Our Appreciation of film director Robert Wise [MILESTONES, Sept. 26] referred in a rather disparaging manner to The Sound of Music, for which Wise won an Oscar for best direction. TIME's somewhat negative cinematic view was first voiced 40 years ago when the movie version of the 1959 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical comedy opened. Here is an excerpt from that critique [March...