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...undercover federal agents had recognized him in the restaurant and discreetly called for a back-up car with two more agents, who arrived and confirmed his identity by the mole on his left cheek. Lester, dressed in shorts and sweatshirt after a 14-mile run, looked up to find three agents crouching with their pistols leveled at him. When he got out of the car, one of the lawmen barked an order: "Drop that hamburger!" Lester smirked, but his levity quickly vanished: "Who are you guys...
Still, after four years of traveling across 1.24 billion miles of space, there was no faulting Voyager 2's marksmanship. Indeed, one golf-minded scientist likened it to sinking a 500-mile putt. Superlatives were certainly in order last week as the semiautonomous robot completed the second lap of its epic flight: a rendezvous with the giant ringed planet Saturn, the spectacular finale to two ambitious decades of planetary exploration by unmanned U.S. spacecraft...
...small, distant moon shaped like a battered Idaho potato (or, as NASA scientists variously had it, a "hamburger patty" or a mouse-gnawed "hockey puck"). Tethys, closer in, is scarred by a huge crater more than a third as wide as the satellite's own 670-mile diameter, and by a canyon that extends at least two-thirds of the way around it. Apparently the moon was struck by a huge object and badly cracked, but the pieces froze together again like chunks of reformed ice cubes. And why is the strange moon lapetus ten times darker...
...Ovett take turns setting records for the mile...
...mile intensified last week as Britain's Steve Ovett, 25, and Sebastian Coe, 24, once more took turns shooting down one another's world records. In Zurich on Aug. 19, Coe reclaimed his record (set in 1979 and broken by Ovett in 1980), taking 27/100 sec. off the mark with a time of 3 min. 48.53 sec. Exactly a week later, Ovett announced that he wanted to go after the new record at a meet in Koblenz, West Germany. No mile event had been scheduled-its metric near equivalent, the 1,500-meter run, was on the Koblenz...