Word: krypton
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...small screen in the hit WB television series Smallville, with a teenage Kent played by TOM WELLING. Reeve, who was paralyzed in a horseback-riding accident in 1995, will make a guest appearance on the show on Feb. 25, playing a scientist who is researching the planet Krypton. At the end of the show, Reeve and Welling will appear in a public-service announcement for the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation...
...interceptor into the right neighborhood, but only the infrared sensors can guide it into its target, gently steering it with minithrusters powered by 30 lbs. of liquid rocket fuel. For the heat-detecting sensors to "see" anything, they must be chilled to -330[degrees]F using nitrogen and krypton, funneled to the sensors through a 0.0035-in. diameter pipe...
...personal heroics, there was David Wells' perfect game. There was the 12-game-winning "El Duque," born Orlando Hernandez, the young man and the sea, who paddled away from Cuba and Castro. And Shane Spencer, who descended from Krypton to hit three grand slams in September. Manager Joe Torre moved players in and out of the lineup all year, and no one ever complained about playing time. Since professional sports is almost wholly made up of prima donna billionaires (see the NBA lock-out), that is a rare achievement...
BATMAN Despite new megaflick, Gotham's Dark Knight is overshadowed by the latest Krypton craze...
...countless stars fill the firmament, they must be circled by countless planets -- or so everyone assumes. In the fertile minds of fiction writers, the distant worlds have taken on every imaginable name, from Krypton to Ork, and spawned every imaginable creature, from the Klingons to the Ewoks. But in real life no earthbound astronomer has ever proved the existence of a single planet outside our solar system...