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...biggest Hollywood blockbuster can't compare to rainy season in Asia. The air around you suddenly thickens. The sky blackens and crackles with lightning. Then comes the rain, humbling in its ferocity, crashing earthward as a near-solid wall of water. I live in Bangkok, where the monsoon is now reaching a crescendo, and every day I watch the greatest show on earth through my office window...
...craft dropped down to 2,500 ft. and prepared to discharge its cargo, a 19-year-old Sandinista soldier, José Fernando Corales Aleman, raised his shoulder-held, Soviet-made ground-to-air missile launcher and fired. The lumbering aircraft shuddered when the rocket found its target, then spiraled earthward, trailing smoke. While the soldiers cheered and slapped one an other on the back, a parachute popped open and a lone figure floated down behind some hills several miles away...
...officials notified--but not the public. Next signal, when the incoming aircraft prove "manifestly hostile in intent": Yellow Alert, to set off air-raid sirens, ground all civilian planes. Final signal: Red Alert, meaning World War III. By then, bombs, and perhaps the bombers, would be plunging earthward...
...Davis will have to be satisfied knowing that he's one of the few Internet entrepreneurs who rode the elevator to the penthouse and got off before it plunged earthward. That's not bad for a kid from the working-class south Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. Davis learned the basics as a salesman at GE and later at the now defunct office-automation pioneer Wang Labs--one of the hottest companies of its time before being blown away by DEC and others. In 1995 he was brought in by a fledgling venture-capital company, CMGI, to run a search-engine...
Turning his eyes earthward, and in consort with General Motors, MacCready conceived the Sunraycer, a solar-powered electric car that averaged 41 m.p.h. in a 1,867-mile race across Australia, finishing two days ahead of its nearest competitor. It too became part of the Smithsonian's collection and was the forerunner of the AeroVironment-designed Impact, an experimental GM battery-powered electric car that in turn evolved into the electric EV-1 auto, which GM is leasing to customers in California and Arizona...