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...slipping closer to earth with each revolution. The Soviets sent the satellite a radio command that should have caused it to separate into three sections, with the nuclear core soaring into an orbit up to 800 miles high, where it could circle for centuries-and yet still remain a lethal hazard if it finally returned to earth. But Cosmos 954 ignored the command...
...harm to man so far seems negligible, the very fact that such nuclear space accidents occur is chilling. For all the talk of "fail-safe" systems, as man hurls more and more lethal nuclear power plants into space, the probability increases of further, and much more harmful, "space age difficulties...
...America, Paul Brodeur has extended his reputation as a thorough and unrelenting science writer. But more than a science writer, Brodeur, a staff writer for The New Yorker, digs for the undisclosed hazards of microwave radiation. With amazing detail and research, Brodeur impresses upon the public its own very lethal ignorance of microwave radiation, and further divulges the secrets of microwave research hidden by the military and industrial powers around the world for nearly 30 years...
When she is thwarted, Ray's mouth clenches as stubbornly as John Bull's, the engaging twinkle vanishes from her amber eyes, and she lasers her opponent with a lethal stare. Says one of the state's top Democrats: "She's unwilling to forgive and forget, and that's one of the cardinal rules of politics...
...reaches its climax?for which Spielberg saves the most spectacular futuristic effects. Even here, it is the director, not the technical staff, who causes the movie to take flight. In Spielberg's benign view, the confrontation between human and alien is an ecstatic evolutionary adventure, rather than a potentially lethal star war; it is a wondrous opportunity for man to be reborn. When the earthlings and the visitors at last communicate in the film, bellowing "Hello" to each other in bursts of light and music, it is like hearing a child speak for the first time?or, as one character...