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...report in Science suggests that 370 million years ago, during the Late Devonian period, a comet or asteroid caused an even greater catastrophe, one that wiped out fully 70% of all marine species on earth. American and Belgian scientists have found tiny glass beads just .3 mm (.004 in.) across, embedded in underground sediments in Belgium. The beads, called microtektites, are thought to be caused when silicon and other minerals melt and then cool following either a volcanic eruption or a high-speed impact. The chemical composition of these beads seems to point much more convincingly to an impact...
...pictures may look the same -- at least to the untrained eye. Purists point out that Photo CD images contain only about 18 million pixels (picture elements), which is roughly equivalent to the visual information represented by the 20 million silver molecules in a standard 35-mm negative. But that is about one-fifth the resolution offered by high-quality Kodachrome slides, and it cannot compare with the glorious large-format pictures that Ansel Adams labored to create...
...muggy Saturday night shortly after 11. Jimmy is driving around in a stolen 1987 Honda Prelude, a 9-mm TEC-9 under the seat. "I'm thinking, ohhh, man, this sain't for me. I'm just tired of this gang banging, and I'm, like, real scared." A semiliterate high school dropout, Jimmy grapples with the ghetto's version of a mid-life crisis. He drives around for 40 minutes, carefully obeying every traffic signal as he furiously works through his options. Definitely don't want to be stopped by the police, really don't want to fire this...
...northern Bosnia last week linked two pieces of territory to form the "Derventa corridor" -- a continuous belt of Serb-held territory running all the way from Serbia proper through the town of Derventa to Serb-populated zones of Croatia. At the Croatian end, the Serbs fired a 155-mm artillery shell that slammed into a soccer stadium crowded with refugees on the Croatian side of the Sava River, killing 13 people and injuring 60. In eastern Bosnia, Gorazde was the only sizable town still in Muslim hands, and it was under Serb assault and siege, its streets reportedly littered with...
...ESCALATION OF WATER WEAPONRY FROM squirt gun to Super Soaker reached its apotheosis last week when Richard Cook, 16, sprayed the wrong guy with a high- power water gun and ended up in a Harlem hospital with a real 9-mm bullet lodged in his back. The new generation of water weapons, with their bulbous tanks and high-pressure air pumps, splash so hard, squirt so far and are so wildly popular (Larami's Super Soaker is the fastest-selling summer toy in the U.S. for the second year in a row) that some public officials fear the summer...