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...from above that the scientists sitting in an Anchorage, Alaska, control room started to get seriously worried. Until then the robot known as Dante II had successfully negotiated a steep, muddy descent and ambled unconcernedly through hot steam and poisonous gases. But even a 10-ft.-tall, 1,700-lb. automaton has its limits, and multiton chunks of rock moving at high speed were beyond Dante's. "That big one," said Carnegie Mellon University robotics expert John Bares, pointing nervously at a video screen after a rockslide, "would've wiped...
Dusty Nash, an angelic-looking blond child of seven, awoke at 5 one recent morning in his Chicago home and proceeded to throw a fit. He wailed. He kicked. Every muscle in his 50-lb. body flew in furious motion. Finally, after about 30 minutes, Dusty pulled himself together sufficiently to head downstairs for breakfast. While his mother bustled about the kitchen, the hyperkinetic child pulled a box of Kix cereal from the cupboard and sat on a chair...
...ferrying of Simpson to the Los Angeles airport at around 11:15 on the night of the murder had been part of Simpson's alibi, reported that O.J. did not answer his intercom until around 10:56. Shortly before that, Park added, he had glimpsed a 6-ft. 200-lb. African-American figure rushing across the lawn into the house. Kaelin, an aspiring actor who had boarded first at the home of Nicole Simpson and now at O.J.'s place, reported being interrupted in the middle of a telephone conversation at 10:40 by a banging and shaking...
...took him just a moment with the skulls to realize that he was looking at an animal unknown to science. Subsequent analysis of the specimens' dna by Peter Arctander at the University of Copenhagen showed that the 220-lb. animal, variously called the Vu Quang ox, the pseudoryx and the Sao-la, was not just a new species but a new genus, probably separated from its closest cattle-like relatives for the past 5 million to 10 million years...
...lb. bombs...