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Since 1973, Shoemaker has been photographing the sky in search of asteroids that periodically cross the earth's orbit and thus pose the danger of a collision. To date, he says, 57 such asteroids at least 1 km (.62 mile) in diameter have been cataloged. In addition, about three earth-crossing comets are detected each year. From the rate at which new earth crossers are discovered, Shoemaker estimates that there are some 2,000 asteroids in this category and that 100 comets intersect the earth's orbit every year...
...sitting on the porch of her thatched hut in a United Nations encampment two miles inside Thailand last week, when the shells began to come in. "I heard a long whistle in the sky--then boom!" she said later. Sad Rod was one of 59 Khmer Rouge refugees wounded, and her four-year-old daughter was among eleven people killed, in an unusually savage attack by Vietnamese forces inside Kampuchea...
...court last week also okayed official spying in the sky. Dante Ciraolo had high double fences around his backyard in Santa Clara, Calif. Even so, police acting on a tip were able to spot the 73 marijuana plants growing in the yard--by flying overhead in a chartered plane. Dow Chemical Co. had even more elaborate security precautions at its plant in Midland, Mich. So the Environmental Protection Agency also sent up an airplane, to get pictures as part of an inspection of the site. In two 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court ruled that neither search from the skies...
...told her diary. "I can do anything I want to with these men, and through it all I like them." She saw the faults of her businessmen clients, but she also sincerely admired the new temples of commerce and industry that they were throwing against the sky. She was not the first industrial photographer, but she found exquisite geometries and arabesques in landscapes that others thought blighted or inhuman...
...hire his firm for their defense. According to federal law-enforcement officials, Levine also used his expertise for a less innocent pursuit: buying stock in companies that he knew were about to be acquired, and then selling the shares at a profit after a takeover bid sent the prices sky-high...