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After the first hour they spent atop Arizona's Kitt Peak scanning the post- midnight skies, the observers knew that their ascent to an altitude of more than 6,000 ft. had not been in vain. They had counted 33 shooting stars, the advance guard of the annual Leonid meteor shower. But none of the University of Arizona students could anticipate the spectacle that was still to come. In the small hours of that Nov. 17 morning in 1966, the fiery meteors began streaking overhead in ever increasing numbers until, as one viewer reported in Sky & Telescope magazine, "the sky...
...shower had become an awesome storm, visible over large parts of the U.S. Southwest, brightening the sky like the grand finale of a fireworks display and causing many startled spectators instinctively to shield their face. Interspersed with occasional fireballs, the meteors reached an incredible peak rate of at least 40 per sec. before the bombardment began to wane. Some shooting stars continued to fall until their trails were obscured by the glare of the rising...
...honest whack at the nation's deficit. The infamous 1990 budget agreement, to which the current plan is so often falsely compared, was dishonest in almost every key respect, primarily because its assumptions were bogus. With Bush's agreement, Congress blithely adopted a set of pie-chart-in- the-sky economic projections almost double the average predicted by private forecasters. When the revenues did not match expectations -- and health-care expenses soared -- the deficit exploded. Clinton, by contrast, has embraced decidedly conservative growth estimates (lower, in fact, than most private economists foresee) and has forthrightly admitted that the entire enterprise...
...gauge, pump-action shotgun he bought for $20 last January from a 16-year-old friend. "The grip was broken, so I got a good price," the 17-year-old says proudly. He doesn't shoot birds anymore, but he fires an occasional salvo into the night sky around Omaha. "Sometimes I just feel like busting it, you know. I just want to pull the trigger...
...days in Kansas City, Missouri, hit hard by the great 1951 floods. Correspondent Taylor was collecting some new memories of the flood of 1993. "There was an eerie normality to life in Des Moines," she says. "With Guardsmen patrolling the empty streets, humidity oppressive and helicopters circling in the sky, it seemed like a M*A*S*H episode." TIME's photographers -- Steve Liss, Ron Haviv, Najlah Feanny and Fritz Hoffmann -- were scouring the area to capture such scenes on film...