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HUPD also took some modest steps to curb campus crime. Recently, it established a corps of officers on bicycles who now patrol the area, and it also set up a police station in the Yard, allowing officers to respond more quickly to emergency calls...
...many astronomers, last week's near-miss of asteroid 1996JA1, as it has been officially designated, was a kind of warning shot across Earth's bow. They have been trying to convince the world--with only modest success--that asteroids like this one represent a clear and present danger. To meet that threat, they have proposed a network of computer-monitored telescopes (equipped with sensitive electronic cameras) that would seek out threatening asteroids or comets in plenty of time to fend them off with appropriately designed long-range missiles...
...insist, they could predict many years in advance if any were destined to strike Earth. Most of the large ones, they say, could be cataloged within a decade, given the necessary funding. But budgets are tight, congressional support is lacking, and NASA has opted to continue only its relatively modest $1 million annual support for three independent groups with telescopes specifically dedicated to NEO hunting. These teams are headed by Tom Gehrels at the University of Arizona, Helin at J.P.L. and Shoemaker at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona...
...secretive anti-tobacco activists manages to plant him on the jury. He then easily takes control, getting an exceedingly dim judge to banish balky jurors and drugging another uncooperative panelist himself. She, meanwhile, remains offstage (not an asset in the sort of novel in which at least a modest degree of bodice ripping is expected) but does manage to drive the tobacco lawyers to blithering distraction with a series of enigmatic phone calls. Thus the good guys are as crooked as the bad guys, though they don't cause lung cancer...
...like lovers against the setting sun. Sandy has one underwater swimming-and-petting scene with Flipper that may be the most sensuous movie aquacade since Brooke Shields and Chris Atkins went skinny-dipping in The Blue Lagoon. Yet for all the cornography, Flipper has its tugs and charms. This modest movie is about not much more than teaching kids to care for animals and, occasionally, for grownups...