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Congratulations! Finally a major publication has taken the giant leap into the outer world, answering the great challenge of the new millennium. It is incumbent upon Americans to show the way. So that all humanity can benefit, we must take the leadership role as explorers, pioneers and innovators in seeking new worlds. "Up, up and away!" should be the new battle cry. GEORGE H. GEORGERIAN Haverhill, Mass...
...festival whose power will be completely supplied through renewable resources. Nearby Springfield is hosting their 10th annual Earth Day Clean Up. Manchester, New Hampshire is to host a "One World, One People" Earth Day festival, complete with guest speakers, exhibits, and a solar-powered sound system. Even that dreadful outer-city ghetto, New Haven, Connecticut has devoted this past week to promoting awareness of the environment through the arts and sciences...
...basic science is pretty straightforward. The earth lurches from time to time because its outer shell is broken into 11 huge, solid plates floating on a layer of molten rock that has the consistency of Silly Putty. These tectonic plates are constantly jostling each other, like rafts crowded into a small pond, and it's along the boundaries where they meet that most quakes are born. The two plates that form California's infamous San Andreas Fault, the Pacific and the North American plates, are the largest on Earth. And they're moving inexorably in opposite directions...
...alien intelligence eager for interplanetary contact would kill off the first humans it encounters ("Sorry, wrong number"--ka-boom!). But the film hits its stride with a space-station jitterbug at zero gravity and a desperate stab at lassoing a bucking bronco of a resupply module in outer space. At the end there is real emotional grandeur in a meeting of minds across the galaxy. This isn't 2001, by a long shot, but for 2000, it'll do nicely...
Head to the Internet's outer fringes, and the alarm bells start sounding. This (with the exception of that genuinely scary "60 Minutes" report) is where most of the aforementioned horror stories are. Some afflicted Gulf War veterans blame The Shot for their woes, although when you hear how many government pills soldiers popped over there to protect them from Saddam it's hard to figure what might have been responsible for whatever they might have come down with...