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Right now, there are 3,800 pieces of junk circling the earth...
...North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which is responsible for providing early warning against aerial attacks, estimates that some 3,800 pieces of junk are currently circling the earth.* Total weight of this space-age garbage: six tons. Two-thirds of the nuts, bolts, oxygen cylinders, broken solar panels, dead satellites, spent rocket boosters and other litter is in geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles from the earth's surface, where it will remain indefinitely. One-third of the circling scrap is in low earth orbit, only 120 to 300 miles overhead...
...What competitive event would pit a running back (Earl Campbell), a race-car driver (A.J. Foyt) and an astronaut (Air Force Colonel Joe Engle) against a high-strung team armed only with cellos, violins, one harp and a collection of horns? No, not ABC's Wide Whirl of Junk Sports. Real answer: the 1984 Houston Symphony Olympics, a cacophonous assembly of nine celebrity guest conductors who showed up last week for a publicity-stunt contest that generated more than 1,500 new subscribers for the symphony season. All conducted themselves admirably-and the suffering orchestra less well...
...Tony called the cops to guard City Hall to make sure Sandy didn't dump any incriminating documents in the building. The city's outgoing personnel director had, of course, already been caught earlier in the day in the midst of as he put it, "clearing out some old junk" by feeding it through a shredder--behind a locked door...
...falling was just an endless series of announcements, like 'The messenger service doesn't stop here on Saturday any more.' " The only thing needed to make the decay of the telephone service even more exasperating is the same pollution that afflicts the Postal Service, not junk mail but phone calls from computers that summon you out of the bathtub to hear their spiels for more life insurance. The Internal Revenue Service has even acquired computers that will telephone an alleged delinquent all day long until he answers...