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...years of the 20th century, duly noting the rise in the number of obscure cults and the increasingly fevered pitch of their rantings. And it is not just that time of the century; it is that time of year too, with Holy Week, the vernal equinox and a partial lunar eclipse converging, all heated up by the extraordinary Hale-Bopp comet lighting the night skies. For those who go in for cosmological conjunctions, it was a perfect week for an apocalypse. For those who seek more human motives, there was the intriguing report on abc's Nightline that Applewhite...
...serene. The national flag was at half-mast, but everything else looked business as usual. People walked on the square, some taking pictures of each other. Nearer the Monument to the People's Heroes, a crew of workers were dismantling a wooden structure used as decorations during the Chinese lunar new year festivities. At one corner, near Mao's Mausoleum, six teenagers played soccer with gusto. A few blocks away from the square, a group of residents walked up to the gate of Deng Xiaoping's city residence to offer a paper-wreath. Guards at the gate accepted the wreath...
...television sets; the total amount of E-mail exceeded that of surface mail; the total volume of traffic on telephone lines exceeded that of voice traffic. Last year's average PC had more computing power than the 1988 Cray computer. A Ford Taurus had more computing power than the lunar-landing module...
...visits spacecraft and astronauts have made to the moon, they have limited their explorations to roughly equatorial areas, largely neglecting the polar regions. In 1994 NASA and the Pentagon launched a probe into a vertical lunar orbit that would reach those extreme latitudes...
When the spacecraft trained its radio scanners on the lunar south pole's deep Aitkin Basin, the reflected signal indicated that it had spotted just such an ice deposit. "If you collected all the ice scattered across that basin," said Dwight Dunston, a mission director, when the discovery was announced last week, "it would form a lake 16 ft. deep and four football fields around...