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...instance, Powell took the lead in toughening up the presentation. He thought that the International Atomic Energy Agency had been too quick to endorse Iraq's claims that imported aluminum tubes were designed for rockets, not for use in nuclear-processing plants. Powell personally grilled CIA experts on the tubes and was told that U.S. intelligence had spun some of the intercepted tubes at the extreme speeds required to enrich uranium. Rocket tubes would have shattered--these withstood the strain. The discussion of the tubes was a high point in a performance that took almost 1 1/2 hours. When...
...lifelike organisms, and trying to explain why the genetic code is the same in all earthly creatures, he and Orgel revived a theory known as panspermia ("seeds everywhere"). In their version, called directed panspermia, a distant civilization arising long ago on a planet where conditions were benign, sent unmanned rocket ships to seed the primitive earth's oceans with sporelike organisms that multiplied and evolved...
CITY OF GOD. Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction. City of God screens...
...gentle astronomer John Hagen supervised the design of the Vanguard's rocket, technically far superior to the Soviet boosters. It lurched and blew up on the pad. Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson raged, "How long, how long, O God, how long will it take us to catch up with Russia's satellites...
...many as 30, say witnesses?jumped out from behind bushes along the road. Waving their guns, they stopped a crowded public bus, several cars, a tractor and the two Europeans who were heading north on a bike trip. Survivors claim the gunmen fired M-16s and grenades from rocket launchers, then stepped over fallen bodies and executed the wounded. The two Europeans, who have yet to be identified, tried desperately to flee on their mountain bikes. One was shot repeatedly in the back. His partner bled to death after a bullet apparently ruptured an artery...