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...bright. Scientists cannot predict the luminosity because each time the comet whips past the sun, it sheds varying amounts of the ice and dust that form its glowing tail. "All this hype is making people think they're going to see a massive apparition that will scare dogs and old ladies," says a NASA spokesman. "It simply won't be that...
...lame duck yet. Nonetheless, whether he can win a final bill at all close to his desires--or indeed any bill--is one of the major questions of 1986. Spy scandals, headed by the exposure of the Walker-family espionage ring, proliferated as rarely, if ever, before. The scare of the year was medical: the spread of AIDS touched off public anxiety and hysteria far beyond anything warranted by the facts, though the facts were surely grim enough. Of 15,775 people who had caught the disease, 8,122 were known to have died...
...Finnish broadcast sparked hours of panic, during which emergency telephone lines were jammed. "I really thought war had come," said Helsinki Engineer Matti Korponen. Mirjam Polkunen, head of theatrical broadcasting for Radio Finland, promised no such "documentaries" would ever again be aired. Said she: "We didn't mean to scare anyone...
...debated the merits of entertaining the exiled dictator in such high style, Marcos reportedly was looking for a haven outside the U.S., even as he was trying to close a deal on a Waikiki estate. The property, appointed with two single-story houses and signs in the driveway to scare away trespassers, has a market value of almost $1 million. The Marcoses may have left some of their splendor, but the love of splendor has not, it seems, left the Marcoses. --By Pico Iyer. Reported by Edwin M. Reingold and Nelly Sindayen/Manila
...truth," he says, "I'm bored with designing for the office. Bored stiff." Among the things he would like to design are baby strollers that do not jiggle, an airplane with an observation deck, a taxicab with a glass roof, and police uniforms and cars that "don't scare the hell out of kids." His manner is sparky, one part anger to two parts joy, like a more thoughtful, humble Lee lacocca. "Ninety-five per-cent of industrial designers don't design," he says. "They are essentially stylists under the aegis of the marketing department." Stumpf hates the raw, unfriendly...