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TEEN VULCAN? Get your polyester jumpsuits out of storage! Star Trek is not gone; it's just a little off orbit. Paramount announced the 11th Trek movie, to be directed by Mission: Impossible III tyro J.J. Abrams. And--you may want to sit down for this--Spock and Kirk are back. The film will center on the Starfleet Academy days of the duo, originally played by William Shatner and LEONARD NIMOY. The starship looked set for scrap after the 10th film and sixth TV series were busts. But don't line up for tickets yet. It's not due until...
From page 48 of Viswanathan’s novel: “The other HBz acted like they couldn’t be more bored. They sat down at a table, lazily skimmed heavy copies of Italian Vogue, popped pieces of Orbit, and reapplied layers of lip gloss. Jennifer, who used to be a bit on the heavy side, had dramatically slimmed down, no doubt through some combination of starvation and cosmetic surgery. Her lost pounds hadn’t completely disappeared, though; whatever extra pounds she’d shed from her hips had ended...
...what was it that everyone had seen? On this score, opinions veered dramatically. Some saw a princess martyred by publicity, hounded unto death by the cameras that loved her so and that then feasted on her funeral. Others blamed the family that drew her into its royal orbit, expecting her to glow with the pale fire of reflected glory, and later cast her aside when she blazed forth as a star...
...lunar lander will be similarly improved, with updated electronics and materials. It too will be a larger ship than its predecessor, big enough to carry all four astronauts down to the surface while the mother ship idles empty in lunar orbit. That not only gets the most bang for the exploratory buck but also eliminates the lonely specter of the single astronaut who used to be left to mind the orbiter while the others went prospecting below...
...rockets--both adapted from shuttle engines--will get all this hardware into space. The larger of the two will loft the lunar lander and other equipment into Earth orbit. A second, smaller rocket will follow, carrying the CEV. The crew vehicle and the lander will then link up and fly off to the moon...