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Distinguishing between warheads and decoys requires a wealth of information the Pentagon wouldn't have in a real attack and wouldn't be likely to get. But Pentagon officials insist their relatively crude discrimination technologies will keep improving. They say measuring subtle differences in projectiles' mass, motion, reflection and rotation will enable the Pentagon to pluck the real warhead from among the decoys. But the officials decline to detail the technical wizardry behind their assertion, saying that divulging their techniques would only aid potential foes...
...road, a great blue heron prospects for frogs, standing poised in the early evening clarity, utterly still... then strikes with a lightning flash of beak. At my approach, the heron rouses itself in a cumbersome fluster, and rises in the air and flaps off in prehistoric, slow-motion grace, topping the red pines...
...recent Harvard study that I briefly wondered if she had enrolled without my knowledge. Last month researchers reported that children routinely overestimate how much they exercise. Describing their activities the previous day, 45 participants ages 11 to 13 reported an hour of vigorous exercise (like running). But motion recorders strapped to their hips revealed the truth: 2 min. The rest of the day--an average of 10 hr.--was sedentary: TV, video games, sleeping...
...wrote in Leaves of Grass, "[I am] one of the great nation, the nation of many nations," and in the embrace of his rhetoric (bombast that would go gossamer, radiant with the genius of his ardor, his generosity), he became endlessly specific about each trade, and put in motion, Homerically, each deckhand, stevedore, scholar, prostitute, drunkard, slave, "Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff," policeman, suicide, trapper, blacksmith, ploughboy, carpenter, contralto, spinning-girl, machinist, squaw, paving-man, flatboatman, fare-collector... on and on, the vast catalog of individualities making...
Zittrain made several off-the-cuff remarks about Jack Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Association of America who has worked to protect his industry from copyright infringement...