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Baker's convincing apes, in fact, are what distinguish him most in Hollywood's special-makeup-effects field (just try to discern which ones are real and which are Baker-generated in Gorillas in the Mist). He also has a knack for working in comedy, which is rare among his peers and which has served him well in lighter fare, such as Harry and the Hendersons, two Batman movies and his work with Murphy. He has other makeup skills beyond the dreams of Max Factor: old age (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman), space aliens (the first Star Wars...
...interceptor's sensors. "The large balloon aided in acquisition of the target," Coyle says. "It is uncertain whether the interceptor could have achieved an intercept in the absence of the balloon." In short, the decoy is hardly a decoy. Critics maintain that future interceptors will be unable to distinguish more muted decoys from warheads, especially at long distances and supersonic speeds...
...technical failure proves more embarrassing to advocates of the system, since critics had pointed out that the tests was primed to succeed by eliminating the most basic of decoys from the equation. Scientific critics have argued that the system has an inherent inability, in battlefield conditions, to distinguish an enemy warhead from a cone-shaped traffic beacon. Advocates counter that the tests are simply trying to establish whether the system can walk before trying to make it run. It doesn't help their case, though, that the interceptor system isn't even managing to stay on its feet...
...preference and pleasure reached into a different America from mine. Father's Day makes one aware that fathers and children are separated by cultures, even when biology seeks to narrow the gap. The worlds in which fathers live carry parts of their existence, and our affection does not always distinguish between the man and the matter...
...dilemma over whether to green-light the system. The New York Times reported Friday that Pentagon documents reveal that the military's testing of the proposed $60 billion missile system are designed to allow the interceptor "kill vehicle" to hit its target despite a basic flaw: its inability to distinguish between a real warhead and decoys that would be routinely deployed in any missile attack...