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Well, not quite. Early last week, four days after Spahr spotted it, his celestial interloper whizzed by Earth, missing the planet by 280,000 miles--a hairbreadth in astronomical terms. Perhaps a third of a mile across, it was the largest object ever observed to pass that close to Earth...
...world, however, still seems largely unconcerned with the danger posed by large bodies hurtling in from space, despite the spectacle two years ago of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 riddling the planet Jupiter with mammoth explosions. It remains to be seen whether last week's record near-miss has changed any minds...
Even more surprising, while both of the newly discovered dinosaurs are unique to Africa, they seem to be related to species found in the Americas. When the dinosaurs began their reign 220 million years ago, all the planet's landmasses made up a single supercontinent known as Pangaea. Because land animals could move and mate at will, dinosaurs from that era look pretty similar all over the world. But by the end of the Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago, continental drift had torn Pangaea into a northern and a southern half, Laurasia and Gondwana. At that point, dinosaurs...
...wife Patricia Duff on the magazine's masthead, and grew when staff members were told to use pictures of Revlon execs in a layout. It exploded last week after Pecker spiked Premiere's California Suite column when he learned of the subject: business deals involving Sylvester Stallone and the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain, which also has venture plans with Perelman...
Never mind that most Americans aren't familiar with this fast-paced game; the U.S. men's and women's handball teams got an All-American introduction at Planet Hollywood in Atlanta. "It's water polo without the water, or soccer but you use your hands," says handballer Thomas Fitzgerald. While the men's Olympic team is still far behind powerhouses France and Sweden, the women's, led by twins Tami and Toni Jameson, has a shot at the first U.S. medal in the sport...