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BRAVE NEW WORLD: It is still a promised land -- a place of spectacular beauty and kinetic energy. But faced with drought, runaway growth and an ailing economy, can it keep its promise...
...surface of Venus has never seemed very hospitable. Temperatures hover around 470 degrees C (900 degrees F), the result of a runaway greenhouse effect, and the pressure of its atmosphere, thick with carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, is some 90 times that of Earth's. Lead would flow like water on Venus, and water cannot have existed in liquid form for perhaps a billion years...
...race is on and will heat up as the holiday buying season approaches. The early advantage seems to go to Escape. "It's a killer," says Allen Burke of Dayton Hudson stores. "A runaway hit." But the three giants are most concerned with long-term sales and permanent market niches. That takes a big budget and intelligent strategy, which is more than what's behind many minor scents, including most celebrity and designer fragrances...
With 3:54 left in the first half, Northeastern struck. Senior Debra Sweeney cut through the Harvard defense like a runaway train and just inside the circle fired a shot into the left-hand corner of the net. The late tally gave Northeastern the momentum moving into the second quarter...
...Varick Street, where Strachan had worked for 20 years. It stunned the choir at the Greater Refuge Temple, where he sang bass- baritone. "We said, 'That's not the Leroy Strachan we know -- he wouldn't hurt a fly,' " says elder Charles Wright. "He's not the sneaky, runaway kind of guy." Then there were Leroy's children, who had no idea that for 45 years, their father had lived with a secret that finally caught up with him. Perhaps it was poetic justice that one of his three sons works as a prison guard...