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...after his arrival in Britain last June, Hambleton is believed to have spied for the Soviets for some 30 years. While working as an economist at NATO's Paris headquarters from 1956 to 1961, he allegedly gave the Soviets copies of more than 80 NATO documents carrying the "cosmic" designation, NATO'S highest security classification. The consequence, Attorney General Sir Michael Havers told London's Old Bailey criminal court, could only have been "exceptionally grave damage" to the alliance...
Eyes on the Earth. From their heavenly perspective, satellites can answer many questions about the planet, ranging from the cosmic (Is the protective ozone layer being destroyed?) to the nature of tomorrow's weather. Since meteorological satellites began sending back television-type pictures of cloud formations and weather fronts in the 1960s, there has not been a single death from hurricanes for lack of warning. A new satellite-based typhoon warning system, now being planned by East Asian nations, should save countless lives and drastically reduce the region's $3 billion-a-year storm damage...
Giovanni G. Fazio, a lecturer on Astronomy who worked with Hoffman at Harvard, says that Hoffman was "very energetic" in his desire to find sources of certain cosmic rays The balloon experiments, he adds, were designed to lift instruments above those levels of the atmosphere that could interfere with the "search for radiation from celestial objects...
...intergalactic guide is an extraterrestrial named Ford Prefect. Vooming around the void accompanied by a two-headed, three-armed creature who once controlled the universe and a sexy space cadet, Dent manages to avert Armageddon and save the world for life as we never knew it. Adams delights in cosmic pratfalls, and if he sometimes loses track of his narrative, he more than makes up for it by confirming what many have suspected all along: "He learned to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wingspans, power...
...Melbourne, Fla. Leek traced her psychic ancestry back to the Crusades and staunchly described her faith as a legitimate religion. But as a writer, she cheerfully supplied supernatural overlays for such pop topics as assassination conspiracies, eventually parlaying her gregarious wit into four companies, regular television appearances and even cosmic cosmetics...