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...storms roll in from the west in minutes. Along the four-lane divided highway, humming tires throw up white crushed rock from the shoulders to nick a windshield or chip paint from a fender. From the few knolls in this flat land, the highway shimmers in the heat of distant, mirage-like oil slicks...
...agree that the strange signal-emitting objects are in fact neutron stars-dying stars that according to theory have collapsed with such force that all that remains is a ball of neutrons as small as ten miles across. With the help of Kemp's new technique for detecting distant magnetism, astronomers may now be able to substantiate their pulsar theories. If pulsars are indeed neutron stars-objects even more dense than white dwarfs-they should be even more powerful celestial magnets...
...opening of Cincinnati's $44 million Riverfront Stadium-not only because of the 50,000 seats. The new park's wide open spaces were expected to cut into the Reds' homer parade. Nothing doing. Since Riverfront opened on June 30, Bench and Perez have reached the distant bleachers on 17 occasions...
...wire barricades to talk with Catholic priests, Protestant militants and heavily armed British soldiers. Like almost every knowledgeable investor, Stein realizes that trouble anywhere in the world has an impact on U.S. securities markets. He argues that the effect is larger than it used to be because television makes distant disputes seem closer
Fetishist. McMahon's novel suffers from problems of technique and plotting. Timmy reads minds and recounts the distant intimate activities of others to an extent that damages credibility. Melodrama intervenes at too strategic moments: a convenient suicide wraps up one subplot, a scientist loses his wallet and laundry with cosmic consequences, an offstage Russian turns out to be a sex fetishist rather than...