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...French groups, as well as by Paczynski and several Polish astronomers. Scanning the stars was only the beginning; the astronomers then had to put thousands of megabytes of data from their telescopes through a computer. The computer's job was to identify the unusual flickers of light caused by MACHOs amid the flashes from thousands of naturally pulsating stars that regularly switch from dim to bright and back again. After nearly 2 million individual observations that yielded just one dubious MACHO, Griest's group was ready to give up. Then, unexpectedly, the computer spit out what he calls "a beautiful...
Children play games of musical chairs. Teenagers play games of chicken. And adults make jury-rigged deals to launch expensive, redundant cable-TV channels. What else is one to make of the panic and quien-es-mas-macho giddiness variously gripping all of television's big boys right now? It's just the latest chapter in the ongoing struggle between the broadcasters -- NBC, ABC, Fox, CBS, their hundreds of affiliate stations -- and the cable-TV operators, but this time the frenzy is particularly intense and farcical, the ironies especially rich, the broadcasters wussier and the cable industry more bullying than...
...women so they can have more virtual sex," says Amy Bruckman, an M.I.T. researcher studying social interaction on MUDs. "A lot of women pretend to bemen so they'll be left alone." Tracy (not her real name), a 28-year-old writer, oftenassumes the identity of a macho, beer-guzzling, care-for-nothing college student. She says it gives her a chance to see how the other half lives -- and to work out her frustration with the men she meets in her life off-line...
Hard Target would never have been a masterpiece; it lacks Woo's usual subtlety in dramatizing the brutal brotherhood of cops and creeps. It has a promising premise, a Most Dangerous Game gloss about a gang that arranges manhunts for macho millionaires, but nobody has much of a character. The loner hero (Van Damme), the woman in peril (Yancy Butler), the CEO-type villain (Lance Henriksen) and his soulless henchman (Arnold Vosloo) -- the roles are little more than job descriptions. Martial artist Van Damme gets to punch out a rattlesnake and follow this moral code: I shoot you three times...