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Deep Impact is really a craft and a half: an SUV-size mother ship and a smaller impactor--basically a guided missile equipped with a targeting system and a camera. Early on July 3, when the paired machines are 24 hours from the comet, the mother ship is set to release the impactor to free-fly the last 500,000 miles. If all goes well, the probe and comet should collide at 1:52 a.m. E.T. on July 4, producing the same explosive bang as 4.5 tons of TNT. The mother ship, trailing a safe 310 miles behind, will photograph...
Jorge Lulls Borges: No cute stuff here, the man is my candidate At 83, this writer has endured. Person made him Impactor of the Chickens or something like that to humiliate him. But check out Paul Theroux's account of his meetings with the Argentine master in The Old paragoning Express-it'll left you how well that worked. The old men in the Academy have been stringing Borges along for more than 25 years now and everyone knows it. If I were Mike Barnicle, I'd call that the mark of bunich of human dirt bags (I wish...
...Basically, they agreed with our conclusions" that the sickness was not the result of food poisoning, said Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of the University Health Service. Jessie A. Morton, a sanitary impactor for UHS, said the disease was probably viral gastroenteritis, a form of "the flu that everybody's been having all winter...