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...While the scout ship Hermes, weighing a mere 180,000 tons, is sent off to reconnoiter Quinta, the Eurydice lingers in the vicinity of a black hole. When Hermes returns, the mother ship will execute an "incomprehensible maneuver called 'passage through a retrochronal toroid,' thanks to which she would reappear in the neighborhood of the Sun barely eight years after takeoff. Without that passage she would return 2,000 years later, which would be no return...
...million faithful. There is no hint of war, however, in Tehran's northern district. This is where bazaaris, members of Iran's business class, and other people of influence reside, in walled villas along placid, tree- lined streets. Women wear the regulation chador during the day but then reappear in the evening in smart outfits from Paris to drink Scotch and reminisce about visits to Europe. "We have two personalities," explains one woman. But when the casual talk subsides, their businessmen-husbands complain about endless problems. Because hard currency is difficult to obtain, they have trouble buying raw materials abroad...
...hundreds of eggs in a series of pockets cut in twigs. Nine weeks later the microscopic nymphs hatch, drop to the ground and burrow down as far as 2 ft., where they grow, eat and await their coming-out 17 years hence. The fact that this brood will not reappear until 2004 is one reason scientists are reluctant to put too much of their time into unlocking the cicada's secrets. As Richard Froeschner, a research entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution, points out, "Enthusiasm and curiosity tend to wane between generations...
...formerly chief epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Thucydides' description, Langmuir theorized, fit the criteria for influenza complicated by toxic shock syndrome. And although this peculiar combination of ailments had never been observed by modern physicians, Langmuir predicted that "Thucydides syndrome," as he called it, "may reappear," perhaps as part of some future epidemic of influenza...
...WHAT'S the point? This is a ridiculously bad movie; I saw it on Tuesday and by the time you read this column it will probably have completely vanished from the theaters, only to reappear Monday in cardboard boxes on video stores shelves throughout the nation. If there is any justice in this forsaken world, the cellophane will go undisturbed until the Apocalypse, when the damned souls will be forced to watch it for eternity...