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...like Redford. He's on the other side. Redford holds back. He's not a hero, and he doesn't want you to dislike the people he plays. Redford retains a glamorous remoteness and passivity that doesn't stray far from good American-Eagle values. It's stability and studiness. but DeNiro gets to American from a different angle. He works his way up the spine and into the buzzing, seething mass of semi-methodical madness in the brain. He goes as far into his characters as he can go, always probing for that pure, nuclear core of nonfissionable personality...
...stray ring particle smashed the small gearbox that controls the platform's horizontal movements? Or was there a failure in the electronics or perhaps in the gears themselves? No one could say, even after hours of patient long-distance troubleshooting (it takes nearly an hour and a half to send a radio command to the far-off spacecraft). By the next day JPL controllers had found they could at least get the frozen platform to swing through a few degrees of arc, though not smoothly or precisely enough to aim the instruments properly. By moving it through ever larger...
...regions of the Mediterranean. At dawn Tuesday, while the bulk of the task force stood at least 100 miles off the African coastline, two destroyers slipped into the northern reaches of the Gulf of Sidra, with the mission of patrolling the southern perimeter of the exercise and watching for stray missiles. As Washington was purposefully aware, the dispatch of the two ships was a sensitive move: the Gulf of Sidra, albeit in contravention of prevailing international agreements, is claimed by Libya, a country the U.S. considers an outlaw nation...
...mortal enemy of the $70 billion American livestock business is the wild coyote. Ranchers claim that last year alone predators-mostly coyotes-marauding from Montana to Texas devoured stray livestock worth $200 million. They have tried fencing off their land, trapping the animals and even shooting them from low-flying airplanes. But ranchers argue these methods always proved unrealistic, inefficient or too expensive. The most effective means of controlling the predators was to scatter animal carcasses laced with a strong poison across pastureland...
...Germany, East Germany and Czechoslovakia meet, a U.S. Army helicopter is giving a brisk guided tour of the frontier. The helicopter cruises parallel to the ugly belt of East German barbed wire and minefields, staying about 100 yds. to the safe side. Occasionally the pilot banks sharply to avoid stray "peninsulas" of East German territory jutting out from the fencing. "You have to know this border by heart," says the pilot. "You could get yourself shot at." His passengers are appreciative. "We call those places 'Gotchas,' " he adds pleasantly. Back down on the ground the visitors are taken...