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...interview?" he joked after more than an hour of conversation. We did meet again. Last week, on the eve of his summit meeting with George Bush, Gorbachev invited Time Warner editor-in-chief Jason McManus and five TIME staff members to his Kremlin office for a tour d'horizon that lasted an hour...
...favorite routes. Last week in Bangor the U.S. Air Force showed off the operations center for a new radar system that can "see" up to 3,300 km (2,000 miles), or nearly ten times as far as conventional radar. Built by General Electric, the OTH (for over-the- horizon) radar system was originally developed to give the U.S. military an early warning of any approaching Soviet bombers. But in these days of easing tensions between East and West, the Pentagon is excited about the role that the radar can play in the war against drug trafficking...
...miles), and airborne equipment for 320 km (200 miles). OTH radar gets around the limit by sending beams up to the ionosphere, an atmospheric layer of charged atoms that begins some 75 km (46 miles) above the earth's surface. The signals are reflected by the ionosphere over the horizon, where they hit objects and bounce back to the ionosphere and then back to the radar system...
...idea behind this radar is not new; shortwave radio signals have long been bounced off the ionosphere. But developing reliable over-the-horizon radar proved tricky because the composition of the ionosphere is always in flux, making it more like a mass of moving clouds than a smooth reflecting mirror. The OTH radar overcomes this problem by using computer power: the software enables technicians to chart constantly the intensity and thickness of the ionosphere, telling operators where conditions are best and which radio frequencies to use for maximum performance...
...this Princess Not-So-Bright is grateful to Junior for the minutest graces: he eats her cooking and doesn't beat her. She and the con are lost souls sharing a postcard vision of Nirvana: a cloudless beach, a dog leaping for a Frisbee, a cruise ship navigating the horizon. Unremarkable. For Junior and Susie, unattainable...