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Zambia, called Northern Rhodesia in its colonial incarnation, has begun to work hard in forming a social contract with its people. The country's story is a synopsis of some of the things that have gone wrong -- and something of an object lesson...
...continues the author's carom through the Big Apple. This time it's a send-up of bizarre life-styles as seen through the hungry eye of Pamela Trowel, advertising director of Hunter's World magazine. Pam is miscast not only in her career but also as a sex object and surrogate mom of Abdhul, a stray who looks like a child but talks like a grownup. The plot? Forget about it. The characters? Instantly forgettable. It's Janowitz's hyper-real prose servicing a cartoon vision that still marks her as a talent in search of an adequate subject...
...supposed to be another space spectacular, the kind NASA used to pull off like clockwork: astronauts aboard the shuttle Atlantis had plans to dangle a half-ton satellite on a 20.1-km (12 1/2-mile) tether, forming the biggest single orbiting object in history. But like so many of the space agency's ambitious projects lately, this one didn't quite work out. The Italian-made satellite rose properly from the shuttle on a 10-m (39-ft.) boom, but the astronauts couldn't pull out its auxiliary power cord. When they finally got the cord out and began unreeling...
...help Bush by showing some flexibility. We owe him for the gulf war, and in any event we see the Democrats as Zionists. Even ((Syrian President)) Assad understands that four more years of Bush would be better for him, which is why we don't expect Damascus to object too loudly when the loan guarantees are granted, even if Israel's settlement freeze is less than total...
...known as the Great Annihilator: a mysterious region close to the center of the Milky Way galaxy that spews out bursts of high-energy gamma rays. A popular theory held that the Great Annihilator was actually a gigantic black hole, a million stars collapsed into a single object so dense that its gravity wouldn't let even light escape. New information gathered by the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico and published in Nature has found that this theory is slightly off the mark. The Great Annihilator does indeed seem to be a black hole...