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Just when you thought your new black-slab digital cell phone was safe from high-tech thieves hell-bent on calling Kuala Lumpur, a group of Silicon Valley cypherpunks have broken the proprietary encryption technology used in 80 million GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) phones nationwide, including Motorola MicroTAC, Ericsson GSM 900 and Siemens D1900 models...
...going to be annihilated after all, crowed the TV newsies in their irritating way. Seems the scientists had miscalculated. A bunch of astronomers announced that the space slab's going to miss us by a good 600,000 miles. This letdown came the day after another bunch of astronomers (who had apparently paid less attention in high school trigonometry class) announced a miss of approximately 30,000 lousy miles, which left open the possibility of a good, solid creaming should a tailwind or something come along at the right moment. How depressing...
...Lieut. MICHAEL BLASSIE's 138th combat mission ended in flames near An Loc, South Vietnam, in May 1972, when the enemy blasted the wing off his plane. What is unknown is whether Blassie, then a 24-year-old Air Force Academy graduate, now rests beneath a sacred marble slab in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. That possibility got a boost last week as veterans detailed their hunch that, through snafus and an eagerness to anoint a Vietnam-era vet as an unknown, the Pentagon ignored evidence that could have determined if the six bones buried...
Becker takes the stage like a modern day Fred Flintstone in blue jeans, work-boots and a T-shirt which reveals a definite gut. The set resembles a half-prehistoric, half-modern bachelor pad, complete with stone slab chair and hamper full of dirty laundry...
Archaeologist Timothy Kendall was leading an expedition in northern Sudan earlier this year when one of his diggers came across a slab of intricately carved stone hidden in rubble. Soon after, another slab turned up, and then another, until there were 25 in all, laid out in the sand like an archaeological jigsaw puzzle. Fitted together, the pieces formed a dazzling tableau: golden stars set against an azure sky, with crowned vultures flying off into the distance. Flying where, precisely? Kendall, an associate curator at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, thinks he knows. And if his hunch is correct...