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ARRAIGNED. LAURIE HIETT, 36, wife of the U.S. Army colonel leading the antidrug war in Colombia; on charges of conspiring to ship cocaine to the U.S.; in New York City. She denies the allegations...
...reluctant warrior. His shock troops were made up of three befuddled senior citizens who swooshed around the ballroom wearing GARGAN'S GEEZERS T shirts. He compared the chairmanship to captaining the Titanic. "I don't want the damned job," he said. "But I'm not about to let this ship go down." Proof that he was a hard worker? He used to drive live chickens to market, a job that meant stopping every few minutes and beating the sides of the truck to keep the birds flapping and alive. During his speech, he listed his credentials as loving poker, pool...
...whole thing is preposterous. Rather than paying a premium to lure pennies back into circulation from jars and drawers, shouldn't we just eliminate them? It now costs about a penny to make and ship a penny. Retailer Walgreens figures it loses $1.3 million a year counting them. Pennies are uneconomic and inconvenient. Shortage? We've got too many...
Some 117 million miles from Earth last week, a small, unmanned ship named Deep Space 1 swooped to within 10 miles of newly named asteroid Braille. The dramatic encounter marked by far the closest approach ever to an asteroid by a spacecraft and helped validate new and previously untried systems for unmanned spaceflight...
...hours during its roundabout nine-month, 500-million-mile journey to Braille, the little craft was accelerated by a futuristic ion-propulsion engine that provided gentle but continuous thrust. And for much of its mission the ship operated somewhat independently of its controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It diagnosed its own systems and navigated with the aid of an electronic brain reminiscent of HAL, the willful computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. "What was science fiction a year ago is now science fact," exulted Marc Rayman, the chief mission engineer...