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...tightly-organized members of Mass Shutdown-NLF playacting police attacks. With half the group slamming clubs over the shields and helmets of the other half, they looked like football players in a Big Game warmup, or perhaps--nightmare visions--like the warrior gorillas cheering on their demagogue leader in Planet of the Apes...
Moreover, as scientists look into space, they are finding that volcanism helped shape the moon, Mars, Venus and smaller bodies, like the Jovian moon Io. Says Volcanologist Martin Prinz of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City: "I can't imagine an earthlike planet without volcanic activity...
...safe and acceptable nuclear depot in the heavens. Three space engineers writing in the journal Astronautics & Aeronautics suggest parking the dangerous debris in an orbit far from any living thing, midway between the earth's own path around the sun and that of the neighboring planet Venus. Left there, say Claude Priest and Robert Nixon of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Eric Rice of the Battelle Laboratories in Columbus, it would never come closer to the earth than 22.5 million km (14 million miles). The scheme would also be cheaper than sending the waste into...
...says he believes in God and is apologizing to the nation for helping build up his mother's "personal empire," and for his adolescent efforts against school prayer. William has not joined any particular denomination, but he feels that "the best way to survive on this planet is through faith in a higher power." He remarks that his former atheistic colleagues "are entitled to their beliefs," but "faith is a strong binding force that can help any individual...
...suspense, as they hear the story of Ulysses. The adventures of Luke Skywalker bear only a superficial resem lance to the quest of Homer's "kingly man," but both draw from the same deep wells of mythology, the unconscious themes that have always dominated history on the planet...