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Even the minimal forecasts, though, are striking. When they were operating, U.S. shuttles and one-way rockets probably lifted no more than 500,000 lbs. per year (the exact weight is secret) of military payloads into space, at an estimated cost of $3,000 per lb. In the first year of deployment of a relatively primitive Star Wars system, according to Lieut. Colonel Louis Kouts, Air Force deputy for space plans and policy, some 2.6 million lbs. of SDI weapons, sensors and other gear would have to be rocketed up. That, says Kouts, would grow to 4.4 million lbs. annually...
Born September 26, 1964 in Queens, Ronis wentto G.W. Hewlett High School, in the Long Islandtown bearing the same name--the exact town, Ericwryly remarks, which was recently listed "amongthe nation's 5 Jappiest townships in the JapHandbook...
...three days a fast-walking visitor can hop across continents by taking a boat down the Yangtze River, touching an exact model of the Soviet spaceship that ventured through Halley's comet and seeing John Lennon's flower-decorated Rolls-Royce. One of the chief delights of most visitors seems to be filling Expo passports with the stamps of each country. Children, adults, everyone wants a stamp. When the emblem of the Ivory Coast failed to arrive during the first week, a slim young woman in a long black-and-white dress made do by patiently writing in each book...
...wearing a digital watch. If the fellow next to you has an analog watch, you might not even have to ask him. You simply lean over, and by noticing the general arrangement of the watch's hands, you know where you are in the day, even before the exact time registers in your brain as a number...
VERY RARELY CAN a person recall the exact moment of the life-shattering mistake which ruined his or her life, and even more rarely can he or she pinpoint the exact moment when the reality of that mistake came crashing home. I can do both...