Word: donalds
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...Reported by Jay Branegan with Clinton, Donald Macintyre/Tokyo, Terry McCarthy/Hong Kong and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...July, a University of Colorado physicist named Alan Kiplinger had an idea. Why not search for SOHO the same way flight controllers look for commercial airliners: with radar? Realizing that extremely powerful radar would be needed to bounce a signal off so distant a target, he called on Donald Campbell, the chief scientist at the world's largest radiotelescope, the 1,000-ft. dish at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Campbell agreed to try, although he estimated that the power of the returned signal would be about a billionth of a watt...
Altom is survived by his parents, Donald andDianna Altom of Oak Ridge, Tenn., his sisterKatherine Altom of Washington, D.C., as well ashis maternal and paternal grand parents
...first half of this year that figure has risen to 10.3%. By contrast, over the same period, rock's market share fell, from 33.5% to 28%. In their new book It's Not Only Rock & Roll: Popular Music in the Lives of Adolescents (Hampton Press), Peter G. Christenson and Donald F. Roberts declare that today's rap defies its demographic stereotypes: research shows that 1) rap is about as popular in the suburbs as in the inner city; 2) it's as popular with girls as with boys; and 3) almost 75% of rap album sales are to whites...
Kind of hard to find much conventional commercial promise in the movie either. Directed and co-written (with Kenny Moore) by Robert Towne, it stars Billy Crudup and Donald Sutherland, not exactly guys you can count on to open a picture. Worse, it follows by a mere two years another movie about its protagonist, the legendary distance runner Steve Prefontaine, which flopped miserably. Without Limits, which is a very good movie, will require a stroke of marketing genius to succeed. Or an unusual effort at understanding--a willingness by the audience to set aside generic expectations and engage the movie...