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...spectrum has two large peaks that may or may not mark an ample presence of an as yet unidentified element, and many small dips that probably represent segments of the spectrum where light has been absorbed by other elements--perhaps those in the object's outer atmosphere or in gas clouds between the object and Earth. Bewildered, the Caltech team looked for other answers. Maybe the object was a supernova, an exploding star, which often projects what Djorgovski calls a "weird-looking" spectrum. But the team observed the target a number of times over several months and noted no change...
...there is more than credibility at stake. When Reno?s internal investigation is completed, the likely finding will be that Coulson was right ?- the two forgotten devices were fired, and bounced away harmlessly six hours before the blaze erupted. The mainstream press, well accustomed to the big and small incompetencies of the Washington bureaucracies, will likely believe it. A significant slice of the republic will not. And some of them ?- self-styled neo-minutemen with a serious beef against King Sam and the arsenal to back it up ?- may well lock, load and decide to do something about...
...March 1998 ?- and it?s taken more than a year for the scientists to report their findings in the journal Science. But the wait is hardly over. The bubbles of brine, trapped in crystals of irradiated halite (essentially table salt from space turned blue by radiation), are so small ?- about an eighth or a tenth the diameter of a human hair ?- that they lie beyond the capability of existing technology. Never fear; a researcher in Cambridge, England, is apparently on the verge of developing a highly precise mass spectrometer that might be able to tackle the problem. Until then, NASA...
...domestic soil. Hardly the sort of thing that should put antigovernment types? fears to rest. But then again, maybe all this ?- which Coulson says he started because "we were in error" about whether tear gas was used ?- is the FBI?s way of letting the truth out in small, non-incendiary batches...
...reveling in the decision to move the capital from the sleepy provincial city of Bonn. "I?ve yet to talk to anybody who?s unhappy about the move," says TIME Berlin (formerly Bonn) bureau chief Charles Wallace. "Even Chancellor Schroeder himself has said, somewhat controversially, that Bonn was a small town where there was nothing to do but think about government. Berlin is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, with plenty to think about besides government...