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...project next year. Clementine is a spacecraft that was to be launched in 1999 to approach an asteroid named Toutatis and send a camera-equipped rocket barreling toward it. The missile, after taking close-up pictures of Toutatis, would smash into its surface while Clementine recorded the impact flash and analyzed any ejected material. The goal was not only to test our ability to rendezvous with an asteroid but also to determine Toutatis' composition and mechanical strength--important considerations in designing weapons to ward off incoming comets and asteroids...
...someone by the name of Warren Cuccurullo, who is apparently American. But in truth, LeBon and Rhodes were always the heart and soul of Duran Duran, bar none. After the feeble successes of their past two albums, one of which was all covers, featuring a rendition of Grandmaster Flash's "White Lines," and the other, their second self-titled record, which included the semi-hits "Come Undone" and "Ordinary World," that saw more air-time on MTV Asia than in the US or England, Duran Duran decided to try their hands at electronica...
This kind of news is hard to cope with. First comes shock and a flash of retaliatory rage. Then the mind begins to subdue itself to a state of sullen depression--reflecting that these things happen all the time, and always have. There was the double horror just the week before involving first an older man from Long Island and a 15-year-old from New Jersey he had met through the Internet and sexually abused, and second that same abused 15-year-old who then raped and murdered an 11-year...
...ring and a flash. Ring. Ring. Flash. Crash...
Crash and a ring, and a flash and a ring...