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The islands are all atolls, formed in a halfmoon shape from the reefs that grow around sunkenvolcanoes. The widest point of the capital of theislands, Majoro, is only 75 years in diameter.
The spirits of rescuers and the millions of people watching rose around 10 o'clock that night, when another girl was heard calling out from the chaos. By the time they reached her, Brandy Liggons, 15, had been trapped for nearly 12 hours. "You can't imagine what it looked...
One potential victim of all this convergence seems to be the industry supporting the CD-ROM, which is now the fastest-growing form of multimedia. A single 5-in.-diameter CD-ROM can hold everything from video games to a 21- volume encyclopedia. But within a decade, the millions of...
A more serious challenge to cable may come from direct-broadcast satellites (DBS). A consortium of telecommunications companies that includes GM Hughes Electronics, RCA/Thomson and Hubbard Broadcasting has just completed a nationwide roll-out of its Digital Satellite System, which offers 150 channels to customers who buy and install a...
If that sounds like science fiction, think again. Comets and asteroids have crashed into Earth in the past. Craters marking the points of impact are mostly hidden by vegetation, their edges softened by erosion. But the size of some of the holes suggests that Earth has been hit by intruders...