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Bill Zanker, 42, is one of those quirky entrepreneurs always on the lookout for the Next Great Idea. Jogging through San Francisco's Golden Gate Park one day, he spotted a man offering massages for $1 a minute. "He was dirty, he looked homeless, and yet people were lined up...
When the spacecraft trained its radio scanners on the lunar south pole's deep Aitkin Basin, the reflected signal indicated that it had spotted just such an ice deposit. "If you collected all the ice scattered across that basin," said Dwight Dunston, a mission director, when the discovery was announced...
But during that first routine polygraph, something wasn't quite right. In Nicholson's replies to some important questions, a sophisticated new computer program spotted the shadows of a lie. When the test was repeated four days later, the signs of a false answer showed up again. So on Dec...
Then two veteran fossil hunters from the local Afar tribe, exploring near a dry stream bed, spotted something out of place: two pieces of a prehistoric upper jaw that had eroded from a hillside. "The instant we fit the jaw together," says William Kimbel, science director of the Institute of...
DAVE MONDOCK, borough manager Forecast: "Look out. We're in for a bad winter." Methodology: A red-tailed hawk. In 1992 Mondock first spotted the migrating bird and noticed that its early arrival in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, correlates with a rough season.