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...thin upper layers would cause the beams to shimmer, however, owing to the same phenomenon that makes the light from stars appear to twinkle. The excimer laser beams would have to be bounced off mirrors in very high geosynchronous orbits over the equator, meaning that the mirrors would always hover over one spot on the earth's surface, to give the mountaintop stations a constant target to aim at. The geosynchronous mirrors would detwinkle the beam and reflect it to "battle" mirrors in low earth orbit. The battle mirrors would aim the laser beam at missiles or warheads. The mirrors...
...from the Wyoming border, these lakes are set as if a water bird shook itself, leaving long, clear feathers among the pines. If you like fishing, canoeing or picnics--but not people--this is your place. The stunning lakes are ringed by wildflowers, and in summer thousands of dragonflies hover over the watercolor fields...
...only temporary. Suddenly, the fast-paced music takes over-and the figure writhe into a fascinating hysteria. The clumps of dancers demand total attention as they separate and then rejoin--all White kicking their legs and making their hands vibrate in the air. Just as chaos seems to hover in a split-second the music stops...
...evidence pointed to an ominous new stage in the Ethiopian calamity, in which 7.5 million people hover on the brink of starvation. Some 3,000 Ethiopian refugees are descending each day on Sudanese relief centers, and anywhere from 250,000 to 350,000 additional refugees may arrive in the next < two months. Says Nicholas Morris, representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum: "We have had 125,000 new arrivals in the past year, 70,000 since November. We need food as fast...
...floodlit tower clock behind him informed viewers only that he was not appearing live but on tape. Brokaw was, however, providing visible proof that NBC, like its network rivals, had spent a reported $500,000 to enable its analysts, dozens of support staffers and tons of equipment to hover near the big story of the day--even if that story was almost entirely nonvisual and the participants refused to talk to the press until it was over. Brokaw wryly implied to viewers that his intrepid-correspondent posture might be a bit silly: "You may be thinking that this...