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Surprisingly, even Geoff Marcy, the leader in the increasingly successful hunt for planets outside our solar system, feels that we may well be alone in the universe. Most of the 33 newly discovered planets--giant gas bags all, including those two new ones--swing so erratically around their parent stars that they would create havoc on any smaller, nearby, life-friendly planets...
...mass and composition, they would use tailor-made nuclear explosions to pulverize a small asteroid or deflect a larger one. Given enough time, and under the proper circumstances, less drastic measures would be needed. Some schemes call for conventional explosives alone, or anchoring a rocket motor or a solar sail on an asteroid to alter its orbit enough to allow it to safely bypass Earth...
...which only increases the potential for surprise. For example, we now realize that not all the aerosols we are pumping into the atmosphere exert a cooling effect. A notable exception is soot, which is produced by wood fires and incomplete industrial combustion. Because of its dark color, soot absorbs solar energy rather than reflecting it. So when a recent scientific excursion to the Indian Ocean established that big soot clouds were circulating through the atmosphere, a number of scientists speculated that their presence might be raising sea-surface temperatures, potentially affecting the strength of the monsoon...
...news one afternoon in Bethpage, L.I., is a solar eclipse that closes school and opens a few minds. But in this deadpan comedy from a former costume assistant to Woody Allen, it's always the night of the living dead. The emotional zombies are disguised as parents and teachers. If they weren't so well behaved, they'd scream with perplexed rage. The only bright spot in this spiffy shtetl of depression is the manic, half-Italian Judy (The Sopranos' Edie Falco), and she's leaving town. Barbara Barrie, Bob Dishy and the late Madeline Kahn shine in a pristinely...
...Shoes: The shoes were really nice too. They are simple and have that solar strip. General metal on shoes looks really rank, and on dress shoes like that it can look really stodgy. But on him, it looks fine. Generally, I think that weird, triangly short of shape doesn't look right, but it looks really good with his outfit...