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...time being, Surveyor won't do much at Mars but orbit. The ship's path around the planet is elliptical, with a low point of 155 miles and a high point of 35,000. Each time Surveyor barnstorms Mars on its close approach, however, it drags a solar panel through the atmosphere in a process called aerobraking. A few months of this cosmic paddling will refine the orbit so that by early next year, the ship will inscribe a near perfect 235-mile circle. Then it will switch on its instruments...
Larry Cook (Jason Robards) has been farming his thousand acres so long and so well that his stature within his Iowa community is almost monarchical. "No one within 50 miles ever made any decision without consulting Daddy," says his oldest daughter Ginny (Jessica Lange), a modest and irresolute woman who has always lived under her father's thumb; at age 36, she still walks the half-mile to his house every morning so his breakfast is ready...
Kosmos may demonstrate no small hubris in the proclamation of dictatorial creative lifestyle autonomy of "Dance dance dance" ("And I could dance a thousand mile/And everyone look at my style/And when I danced a thousand mile/ And I don't want to sing and smile/I change my style"). But we forgive him for it, if only for the sheer exuberance he promises to those...
...kids at Intel, unveiled to the world Wednesday. You know, the one that smashes through the innovation barrier known as Moore's Law, the one that promises to make memory technology obsolete every nine months instead of every eighteen ? which is the technological equivalent of running a two-minute mile. But does anyone really care? "The irony of this development," says TIME computer correspondent David Jackson, "is that consumers may not want or need it. As it stands now, the hottest new market in the industry is for cheap machines capable of doing simple tasks such as word processing...
Come June 21, it was vacation time. So I hopped in the Jeep and drove down to Florida. Just south of Charleston, S.C., an officer stopped me for speeding. She claimed I was doing 110 in a 55-mile-an-hour zone; I protested, she cuffed me, I spent a couple of nights in county jail teaching inmates the basics of Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action...