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...Star Tours, poses no such hazards. As many as 27,000 people a day wait between 45 minutes and two hours for a chance to take a 4 1/2-minute imaginary excursion to the Moon of Endor. They are rewarded with a nonstop thrill ride in which a mock spaceship climbs, banks and even reaches the speed of light -- all with white-knuckle realism. "This is easily the most popular ride," says Bob Roth, manager of publicity for the park. "On a roller coaster, you have the lingering feeling that the car can go off the tracks. Star Tours gives...
...know if this radiocast will reach you guys way out there in your spaceship, but I really miss you. You're still the only other beings from Melmac who I know survived when the planet blew up. A lot of amazing things have happened to your old buddy Gordo since you last heard my signal, soon after I crash-landed through the Tanner family's garage roof and decided to stay here in sunny California. There are drawbacks: this place earth is so outsville you can't buy a whisker omelet or a tabby-paw pie. Here, when people stroke...
...heroic scenario: the explosion of the doomed planet Krypton, the miraculous escape of the infant son of a Kryptonian scientist, the discovery of the baby's spaceship by an elderly couple near the Midwestern town of Smallville. And the gradual revelations of the child's superhuman strength, the foster parents' exhortation that he "must use it to assist humanity," the youth's adoption of a dual identity -- the mild-mannered, blue-suited newspaper reporter, Clark Kent, and the red-caped, blue-haired Superman, the man of steel. And Lois Lane, the toothsome fellow reporter who attached herself to the Superman...
...rely heavily on advanced technology to turn out the kinds of cars that people want to buy. Eager to demonstrate high-tech pizazz at the show, the company unveiled five "concept" models -- futuristic versions of GMC, Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick and Cadillac vehicles. One, the Pontiac Banshee, resembles a spaceship on wheels, with a canopy top that opens like a jet fighter's. Instead of a rearview mirror, the Banshee has a TV camera in the back of the car that feeds a picture to a dashboard monitor...
...system, providing a sequel of its own. Despite a soft landing on that astral body, the reappearance of the celebrated black monoliths of superintelligence, and references to voicegrams, audiomail and vocards, Clarke's future bears a marked resemblance to the present. Plowing through the void, crew members of the spaceship Universe sit back to enjoy their in-flight film, Gone With the Wind, and Floyd informs a colleague, "They're relaying a lot of material back to Earth through the big dish on Ganymede . . . The networks are yelling for news...