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...embarrassed National Reconnaissance Office today defended itself against charges that it has squirreled away more than $1 billion that it had received, but never spent. The NRO, a Pentagon-CIA hybrid that operates under a secret "black" budget, explained that its satellite projects often take several years to complete and thus may produce a large budget surplus in any given year. "Congress has long had a dispute with the Defense Department over unspent funds," says national security correspondent Douglas Waller. "Agencies sometimes find themselves physically unable to write the all the checks for the money they are appropriated...
...forge themselves into Olympic figure skaters, others into masters of the 18-ft. jump shot. The pageant hopeful may have this doggedness. She can't get prettier, but she can hone her talent, polish her poise. By the time she makes the top 50, she has become a curious hybrid: the professional amateur...
...these zealots, modern American art is summed up in the image of Robert Mapplethorpe, that slick and vastly overrated photographer, conservative in every sense except the sexual, who is now seen as a hybrid of welfare queen and Caligula, living off the NEA on your tax dollar and mine while sticking bullwhips up his bum. In fact, Mapplethorpe neither got nor asked for one cent from the NEA to make the photos that caused the offense; a museum did that, for a show of his work. And he died a multimillionaire because of the ranting queer hatred of Jesse Helms...
Mack's book describes 13 cases in which peoplewere abducted by aliens for sexual experiments,including that of a man who remembers an alienfemale taking a sperm sample from him, a woman whosays she gave birth to a human-alien hybrid and aman who says he had an alien wife in a paralleluniverse...
JOSHUA QUITTNER'S "WHY EMPEROR BILL Should Rule" [Cover Stories, June 5] neatly describes the frustrations shared by users of personal computers. The unreliability of these machines, caused mainly by integration of hybrid software, is the reason Big Business has stayed loyal to the mainframe. Bill Gates has been the visionary, taking microprocessing to where it is today, so let's give him credit. To clip his wings at this stage could end the U.S. domination of the industry he helped create. Michael E. Jacobs Plettenberg Bay, South Africa