Word: icing
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...March, the comet will still be 40 million miles away. Halley's may appear to stretch the length of the Big Dipper but probably will not be as bright. Scientists cannot predict the luminosity because each time the comet whips past the sun, it sheds varying amounts of the ice and dust that form its glowing tail. "All this hype is making people think they're going to see a massive apparition that will scare dogs and old ladies," says a NASA spokesman. "It simply won't be that...
...Mammoth Hunters continues the best-selling adventures of Ayla, the Cro-Magnon sexpot with the brain of gold. Having said goodbye to the Neanderthals who raised her (The Clan of the Cave Bear), and having met the blond hunk Jondalar (The Valley of Horses), the queen of the ice age finds it hard to be both beautiful and brilliant. After a hard day as animal trainer, physician, fire maker and slingshot instructor, Ayla must decide whom to choose for "a turn in the furs." Should it be dependable Jondalar or stylish Ranec, the romantic, dark-skinned artist who actually asks...
...Shoppers at Boston's Museum of Science store can take home a tiny piece of the moon, complete with a lunar map locating the crater from which the rock was taken. The single best-selling item in the Smithsonian stores is a $1.25 bar of freeze-dried ice cream, similar to the kind that passengers on the space shuttle eat. Houston's Museum of Fine Arts offers a Michael Graves-designed teakettle ($70). The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County sells West African ceremonial feathered headdresses ($160). At the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles...
...Squares' Tom Bergeron. Where Idol's Simon Cowell snipes put-downs, judge Len Goodman has such quaint British diction you could imagine him reporting from London during the Blitz. The theatrics and costumes (former New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre jived in a G.I. outfit) would embarrass an Ice Capades...
...Percentage of the world?s ice cream consumed...