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...Worlds -- an update of the H.G. Wells novel and 1953 movie -- into a dreary stalemate. Last season the evil aliens seemed to do little but abduct unsuspecting earthlings and transform them Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style into blank-eyed automatons to do their bidding. A second wave of aliens has arrived this season with a slightly different plan: to abduct unsuspecting earthlings and make clones of them to do their bidding. Just how that is an improvement remains to be seen...
...Applied to San Francisco, it means that a second quake there in a year or two would have a much greater impact. We could expect to see a significant out-migration from California," says geographer Curtis C. Roseman. "One quake doesn...
Stephen Ambrose's Nixon, the second of the historian's three volumes, covers the period between his subject's debacle in the 1962 California gubernatorial election and vindication by landslide in the presidential election of 1972. As in his first installment, Ambrose sets out the chronicle in meticulous detail, relying more heavily on facts than dicta to lead the reader's judgment. Fact: Nixon was so habitual a deceiver that in 1962, 48 hours after saying defeat would at least restore his family life, he left for the Bahamas without his wife and daughters. Fact: during 1968 he artfully cultivated...
...serious menace. The newspaper, after all, is owned by investors who are members of the Unification Church headed by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose ambition is to lead a worldwide theocracy. Yet many critics who dismissed "the Moonie paper" in the early days are now taking a second look. Slowly the Times (circ. 103,539) is moving toward acceptability...
...buildings. Radar transmits radio waves and "listens" for an echo. The direction of the echo and the elapsed time from transmission determine an object's location. Unlike relatively slow sound waves, radio signals travel at the speed of light and can circle the globe 7 1/2 times a second. Therefore, radar can almost instantly spot targets at great distances. Because it can see through clouds and at night, radar is superior to all other sensors, including optical, infrared, acoustic and magnetic...