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That antenna is a Harvard-Smithsonian radio telescope, the Brobdingnagian ear of the newly dedicated project BETA, the latest and most ambitious effort yet in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The search has been doggedly conducted over 31/2 decades by small bands of devoted scientists around the world. It's a quest not only for life beyond the Earth but for life intelligent and capable enough to transmit meaningful radio signals across vast stretches of empty space...
Indicted ex-Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski is a connoisseur of spirits, tobacco and Brobdingnagian steaks. Now those who may have profited from his appetites are returning the favor, as this selective list of contributors to his defense fund shows...
Railroad talk is Brobdingnagian by nature. The lines bind every corner of America and are pushing increasingly into Mexico and Canada as trade builds. Those 12 top freight lines alone own 1,189,660 cars and 18,964 locomotives, which together could make a train that would stretch halfway around the globe...
...tell, the AL snoozathon didn't need the Clarence Thomas hearings to upstage it; a church social could have done the job. Here, after all, were two teams from above the timber line playing in domed stadiums of spaceship sterility on synthetic carpets that made the games look like Brobdingnagian billiards. Only one contest was close all the way. Only one rooting interest tickled fans' fancies: seeing the Twins earn their spot in baseball's unlikeliest finale...
After a storm of protest over the so-called zero-tolerance policy -- under which Brobdingnagian yachts were confiscated if lilliputian amounts of marijuana were discovered on board -- the Coast Guard and the U.S. Customs Service have decided that perhaps they can tolerate a trace or two of illicit drugs on the high seas after...