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...Whittier, a part of metropolitan Los Angeles, the once sweet air is befouled with carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, lead compounds, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, fly ash, asbestos particulates and countless other noxious substances. The Apollo 10 astronauts could see Los Angeles as a cancerous smudge from 25,000 miles in outer space. Airline pilots say that whisky-brown miasmas, visible from 70 miles, shroud almost every U.S. city, including remote towns like Missoula in Montana's "big sky" country. The environment may well be the gut issue that can unify a polarized nation in the 1970s. It may also divide people...
...survey of Clinton's accusers proves nothing else, it's that birdbrains of a feather flock together. On the alleged plot's outer edges stand the mom-and-pop entrepreneurs devoted to peddling anti-Clinton miscellany via at least a dozen Websites. Michael Rivero's Vincent Foster page invites the visitor to view a video of an actual suicide by gunshot, while the unofficial Bill Clinton home page features a doctored photograph of the President with his pants around his ankles. Then there's cybergossip Matt Drudge's controversial Drudge Report, which put the Lewinsky story on the Net days...
...second that he's airborne, lands on one foot with a force four times his weight, then sucks it up and launches again for the toe loop. In practice he routinely bends his blades, and he recently started skating in a boot sporting an outer layer of ballistic nylon, the stuff they use in bulletproof vests...
Still, women come to Axum to speak directly to Mary. They dance to beg for help. They approach the gateway to the inner shrine to genuflect and kiss its stones. They stand in lines along the outer walls offering silent prayers. "If we have a problem--lack of rain, poor harvests, infertility, illness--we need to go to her and she will listen," says a young supplicant, "more than Jesus or God. If we are here, by our presence, she knows it even though we can't be in the church...
Astronomers have been aware for decades that very massive stars expire in huge explosions that can outshine a galaxy. But sunlike stars die with a lot less fuss; they swell, slowly frying close-in planets, then puff their outer layers into space to form enormous balls of gas. Finally, they shrink to dim, glowing embers. A quiet ending--or so everyone thought before the Hubble Space Telescope came along. New images released last week show that the process is more complex and violent than anyone believed. Supersonic jets of particles and dense clots of dust warp the glowing gas into...