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...raising enough financing to make a cash bid for CBS or perhaps staging a proxy fight for control of the network at its annual meeting next spring. Meanwhile, reports at week's end suggested that the broadcast maverick may already have his eyes on another takeover target: entertainment giant MGM-UA. ENTERTAINMENT Ratin' Rock 'n' Roll...
...clue to how pollutants travel may lie hi the giant furrows (up to 3 ft. deep and 20 ft. across) that stretch for miles along the lake floor. Scientists think that the trenches, similar to those on ocean bottoms, are carved by currents of water that can also disperse toxic material. Other investigators will concentrate on collecting two shrimp like organisms in the food chain, including Ponto-poreia hoyi, that dwell on the sediment and may ingest toxic chemicals...
...HEXAPOD. A six-legged manned vehicle that resembles a cross between a giant grasshopper and an Erector Set horse. Planned for use over hilly, rocky or swampy areas that would bog down jeeps and tanks, the l0-ft.-tall Hexapod is designed to lurch along at up to 8 m.p.h. by taking 9-ft. steps. Clint Kelly III, director of DARPA's Office of Engineering Application, calls the gawky-looking device the most technologically advanced off-road vehicle ever constructed...
...clusters of Virgo and Centaurus, recording the precise contours of their massive radiation fields. Toward the other end of the electromagnetic spectrum, another telescope, an infrared instrument, mapped the invisible heat of the Milky Way. A small satellite called the plasma diagnostics package was suspended from the ship's giant remote arm to measure "ripples," or the wake that the shuttle causes in the earth's ionosphere. At several points, the shuttle fired its thrusters to poke temporary "holes" in the ionosphere, allowing radio astronomers based around the world to aim their telescopes through the gaps. Indeed, the experiments hummed...
Early this year a bomb went off in a computer at the Los Angeles department of water and power. The device did not explode; it was a "logic bomb," a smidgen of spurious software coding that had been secretly inserted into the giant IBM machine. At a preassigned time, the logic bomb suddenly went off and maliciously froze the utility's internal files. Work came to a standstill until a team of experts, including the Los Angeles police department's newly formed computer crime unit, was able to uncover the subversive coding. The unknown criminal, who could face five years...