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Once the nature of the approaching object is determined, explains physicist Edward Tagliaferri, a U.S. space program consultant, "it becomes easier to decide if you want a standoff explosion, a surface explosion or a subsurface explosion," If the asteroid or comet is small, it can be vaporized with a subsurface explosion, but for larger bodies, says Tagliaferri, "you'll probably have to nudge them into a new orbit." For an asteroid consisting largely of iron, he says, "you'd probably want to have a surface explosion...
...Woodstock on the Mall, actor Edward James Olmos quoted Lincoln: "We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." Clinton, a good student with a good memory, mouthed the words as Olmos spoke them. Clinton must have realized that, in a different sense and a different era, America faces the task of disenthralling itself, of shaking off the Hollywood stardust and facing facts...
...John Kisch and Edward Mapp...
...period from the beginning of race movies through the era of Poitier and Belafonte are the subject of A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black Cast Posters by John Kisch and Edward Mapp. This book is a glossy compilation of hundreds of posters used in promoting independent race movies and Hollywood features with an important African-American presence. Spike Lee offers an inconsequential preface that is thoroughly put to shame by the excellent introduction by Donald Bogle...
...address at the Harvard School of Public Health Monday, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) predicted Monday that, despite opposition from interest groups, Congress could pass a major health care reform bill this year...