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...billion-apiece KH-12 satellites the Pentagon has in orbit are like Hubble space telescopes pointed back to earth. From 164 miles up, their optical sensors can snap clear photographs of objects no larger than a paperback novel on the ground. The two Lacrosse satellites, same price tag, with solar-power panels that stretch the length of half a football field, have radar-imaging cameras that can see through clouds and even the dust storms that swirl around India's Pokhran test site. In a crisis, at least one of the four birds can be positioned over a target...
...paper lying on the dock, but as the Coast Guard cutter Conifer left its moorings last week with the squirming body of a 31-ft., 19,200-lb. gray whale stretched across the width of the deck, a glint of light disclosed the discarded object's true identity: a paperback copy of Herman Melville's Moby Dick...
Currently the subject of four best-selling paperback books, LEONARDO DICAPRIO doesn't want to become the subject of a best-selling issue of Playgirl as well. According to a suit DiCaprio's lawyers filed last week, the skin magazine is planning to publish pictures of the star of The Man in the Iron Mask without anything masking him at all. Although the lawsuit says DiCaprio has not seen the photos and doesn't know whence they came, they are thought to be from the movie Total Eclipse, which has a gay sex scene. Brad Pitt fought a similar case...
...Spock's name become that hardly anyone remembers the title of his most famous book, which has sold 50 million copies in 42 languages. In fact, there were two titles. The hardcover edition, published in 1946, was called The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care; the paperback, priced at 25[cents], was The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care...
...said, Oh, we forgot about it. So they suggested Thursday. This search was so important to the nation, yet they waited two days. When they came, they took things like Monica's computer, hatpins, T shirts, dresses, pantsuits and a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass--a paperback version, not even the one the President gave Monica, which, by the way, wasn't even signed...