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...saboteurs would break through fences by using bolt cutters or Bangalore torpedoes, pipe-shaped explosives developed by the British army in India nearly a century ago. The terrorists would blast through outer walls using platter charges, directed explosives developed during World War II, giving them access to the heart of the plant. They would use gun-mounted lasers and infrared devices to blind the plant's cameras, and electronic jammers to paralyze communications among its defenders. They would probably be armed with precious information--hand-drawn maps, drawings of control panels, weak spots in the site's defenses--provided...
...share, aside from the approximately 1.4 percent of our genetic material that is common to all humans but not to chimpanzees. Enveloping us all in its vacuum-powered embrace, it is the massive and unwieldy momma of our own mother earth. And now, as advances in technology make the outer limits increasingly accessible (even the Canadians have a space program!), we must all brace ourselves for the impending big bang of twenty-first century consumerism: advertising in outer space...
...begin with, the FAA’s ban operates on the Reagan-esque presumption that the United States owns outer space. In point of fact, a unilateral U.S. ban on zero gravity advertising will have little effect in our globalizing world. What, for instance, is to prevent a publicity-hungry Bill Gates ’77 from spending his billions on an outer space advertising campaign based in Pyongyang? And even if the U.S. government were to somehow keep all American companies from advertising in the night sky, it would have a much more difficult time convincing foreign firms...
...were a high-tech hologram and I were a futuristic ghost. This feeling struck me acutely during a yawn-inducing 10-hour drive from Montana to Colorado via Wyoming. Except in feeble, quivering bursts, normal radio signals can't conquer that barrenness, but thanks to some wonderful gizmo in outer space, I was able to stay in touch with the most minute developments in the Michael Jackson trial and the Brad Pitt--Jennifer Aniston breakup. I couldn't have been more clued in to those events if I'd been living on Sunset Boulevard, nor could I have been more...
...Eighty-five percent of students in Boston schools are non-white while 90 percent of students in the outer suburbs are white,” she said...