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Apparently not. A four month intensive search for extraterrestrial life conducted by the California-based Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) has unearthed evidence of a whole lot of suburban life, but nothing that can be called alien communications. Using Australia's biggest telescope and multimillion-dollar scanning equipment, an international team tracked 28 million radio frequencies. But instead of overhearing a couple of aliens talking about which small farmtown to spook, SETI picked up the racket of microwave ovens, garage-door openers, mobile phones and orbiting satellites. The team will now resume the search from California. Bound to find...
...something of a gimmick. There's hardly any need to prospect for ancient life forms in amber, says David Miller, vice president of research and development at EcoScience, based in Worcester, Massachusetts. Microbes that trace their roots back millions of years exist all over the place, even in suburban backyards. Moreover, as a source for discovering new, more effective drugs, amber is by no means a sure thing. Why not focus instead on compounds produced by the billions of living microbes still waiting to be identified...
DIED. ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY, 57, actress; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Montgomery developed an enduring following with her '60s series Bewitched. She played Samantha Stephens, a perky suburban helpmate who happened to be a witch. Post-Bewitched, Montgomery appeared in grim but well-received TV movies such as A Case of Rape (1974) and The Legend of Lizzie Borden...
...modern mediator between the goddesses onscreen and the mortals in the theater seats. She's the star you could take home to Mom. With her tousled but well-scrubbed blondness, she looks as if she would be at ease in a law office or a pta car pool. Her suburban incandescence is warm, not scalding. Ryan is the low-calorie, '90s incarnation of celebrity: Star Lite...
...enormous political risks involved in slashing Medicare and an array of other sacred-cow government programs to balance the budget and pay for the tax cuts Gingrich has termed the "crowning jewel" of the Contract with America. Indeed, there was cold sweat at a no-press-allowed retreat in suburban Virginia at week's end, where G.O.P. House members had to go to secure conference rooms to read numbered copies of House budget chief John Kasich's blueprint for slicing an astonishing $1.4 trillion from federal spending over the next seven years. The plan would eliminate the departments of Energy...