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During their frigid all-nighters on Palomar Mountain, Gene guides the telescope, shooting two pictures, 40 min. apart, of each patch of sky. After developing the film in the observatory darkroom, he turns the negatives over to Carolyn, who scans each set of two under her stereo microscope. If anything has moved against the background of fixed stars during the 40-min. interval, it appears to float in the eyepiece. If so, it is an asteroid or comet and might someday present a threat...
Well, almost. At 10 p.m. on the night of the party, my suitemates were still balancing the TVs atop stacks of furniture, hooking them up to the VCR, and plastering loose stereo wires onto the walls with liberal amounts of tape. Meanwhile, in my bedroom, I hooked up the blacklights and, having set out a plateful of fluorescent chalk, wrote BE CREATIVE on one wall so that our guests would get the idea. Upstairs, sofas, a second stereo system, and mixed drinks were arranged to create a cozy "get-away-from-the-dance-floor-and-beer" setup. Within two hours...
...What's going on?" I asked, barging into the DJ room as the music jerked back to life. The DJ explained that there was a loose connection in the stereo and that the only thing keeping the music going was his finger, pressing the speaker wire into the input jack. "I can feel the music going through my hand," he said, somewhat dazedly...
Prizes donated by local businesses will beawarded to the students who raise the most money,with the biggest money-raiser receiving aMacintosh SE personal computer. Other incentivesinclude a 20-inch stereo color television and astereo...
...opened fire into a passing car on a Washington- area interstate because he felt "like busting somebody." The somebody turned out to be a 32-year-old woman driving home from work. In Los Angeles two teenage sisters allegedly killed an elderly neighbor while another sister allegedly played a stereo to drown out the screams. They have denied all charges...