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According to the Harvard Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Web page (http://mc.harvard.edu/seti/), the search first began in 1978 with scientists listening to signals transmitted from a 1,000-foot dish in Arecibo, Puerto Rico...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOOKING FOR LIFE IN OUTER SPACE | 9/15/1998 | See Source »

Leigh says people often laugh at his search for "little green men," but he believes scientific proof actually exists for life beyond Earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOOKING FOR LIFE IN OUTER SPACE | 9/15/1998 | See Source »

Again and again, controllers vainly sent signals to where they thought SOHO should be. Weeks went by without a response. Then, in mid-July, a University of Colorado physicist named Alan Kiplinger had an idea. Why not search for SOHO the same way flight controllers look for commercial airliners: with radar? Realizing that extremely powerful radar would be needed to bounce a signal off so distant a target, he called on Donald Campbell, the chief scientist at the world's largest radiotelescope, the 1,000-ft. dish at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Campbell agreed to try, although he estimated that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost and Found in Orbit | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...make bombs. According to Customs agents, a law student in New York City threw his hard drive into a neighbor's yard (it was later discovered by a police dog). Federal sources say an alleged club member in Allen, Texas, committed suicide last week after being served with a search warrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Main Street Monsters | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...what about the summer of '98? Well, if the Clinton-Yeltsin summit and the fear of economic collapse lead both McGwire and Sosa to keep hitting home runs in search of enhanced income possibilities, we may really have a brand-new Inter-Related Harmonic Convergence to remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News, Newser, Newsest | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

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