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Frankly, I'm getting a little tired of Nicole Kidman's nose. First she donned about 5 lbs. of proboscis prosthetics to more closely resemble Virginia Woolf in The Hours. Now she's learned to make it wrinkle and twinkle the way Elizabeth Montgomery did on Bewitched some 40 years ago. It's cute for a while, then wearisome...
...Impactor Designed to collide and die, it carries few instruments but a lot of weight 820 lbs. in all. More than 200 of those pounds make up a copper cratering mass, which increases the size of the hole the impactor digs...
...Flyby Spacecraft The ship, 11 ft. long and weighing 1,325 lbs., is powered by solar panels and a rechargeable battery. It uses a suite of instruments to survey the comet. It also gathers and relays data from the impactor...
...doctors had ever restrung. "Occasionally he'd call me up and say, 'I didn't go to the park today,'" smiles Mickey Cobb, the trainer, "but I knew by looking at the room that he went every day." A small, bald man of 44, Cobb began life at 2 lbs. in rural Georgia, polio-ridden and without benefit of physician. He started limping at four. "I couldn't play when my friends were playing," he says, "so I carried the Band-Aids...
...Honduras, and six from Ilopango. He said he was paid $3,000 a month to work as a "kicker," the crewman who pushes cargo bales out of flying airplanes. Logbooks and other documents found in the wreckage of the C-123K showed that it had dropped some 130,000 lbs. of military supplies into Nicaragua...