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...planet the size of Saturn--the smallest yet discovered. "We think we can get down to the level of Neptunes," he says, "which are only 10 times as massive as Earth." Despite having so many planets in hand, Marcy and other astronomers haven't found anything like our home solar system: most of the planets found elsewhere are not only huge, but they career around in orbits that would fling smaller, Earth-like planets out into space--a discouraging start to the search for life in the galaxy, though it's far too early to give...
...Kecks, say, whose observatory building was designed with a basement-level chamber for that purpose, or two or more of the four VLT telescopes in Chile. The system is dauntingly tricky and complex, but its astonishing precision will let astronomers tease out the details of galactic structures and distant solar systems as never before...
...Astro Zombies" (1968), coscripted by "M*A*S*H"'s Wayne Rogers, stars John Carradine a - natch - a mad scientist, and Tura Satana as a dragon lady criminal mastermind. Tura is one of many individuals looking to snatch Carradine's secret of bringing cadavers back to life with solar energy (don't ask). The horrendous creatures he resurrects are incarnated by stunt men wearing dimestore skull masks, so a good time is had by all. "The Corpse Grinders," Ted's best-known horror outing (which outgrossed several Hollywood studio features in 1970), concerns a failing cat food company that discovers...
...banks wouldn't touch. Using equipment or technical know-how as equity is usually satisfactory to both partners." Earlier this year, Dichter brokered a fifty-fifty joint venture, worth about $250,000, between Akshay Urja in Poona, India, and a company called Ekrani in Tbilisi, Georgia, to manufacture solar hot-water-heating systems for sale in the former Soviet republics. The Indian company will provide production technology and marketing savvy, and the Georgian firm will provide raw materials and factory and office facilities. "Neither side committed capital to the deal, and none was needed in order to launch the project...
Since that time, McDonough has worked on designing safe textiles--"so untoxic, you could eat them"-- solar-powered buildings for Nike and the Gap and completely recyclable cars, among other products...