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...never look at your pet the same way again. In the sun-dappled universe of Cats & Dogs, the live-action comedy opening July 4, a power struggle has been raging in our own backyards since ancient times. Using high-tech spy equipment, man's best friend has kept the peace. And victory is at hand! A nutty professor has almost completed a formula that will eradicate human allergies to dogs, putting canines ahead in the people-pleasing sweepstakes. When an evil white Persian cat launches his plan to take over the world, it's Lou the beagle to the rescue...
...Yorkin was born and raised in the coal-mining town of Washington, Pa., where his father, a women's wear merchant, was part of a tiny and somewhat beleaguered Jewish community. Anomalously armed with a degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Tech, he went to New York in 1946 with the intention of becoming a theater director. A daytime job as a TV repair man supported his night classes in English literature at Columbia University. "My partner and I used to find excuses to fix sets in good restaurants so we could get free meals from the waiters," he says...
...TOWER LEAN BACK In recent decades, forces pulling the tower askew began to compound each other. Soil continued to give way underneath, while stress increased on the stones on the downward side at the base of the second level. A panel studied several ideas before selecting a low-tech but effective solution...
...coming. Next week a satellite will launch from Cape Canaveral to make the most sensitive observations ever of the cosmic background radiation. Supernova watchers, meanwhile, are lobbying NASA for a dedicated telescope so they won't have to queue up for time on the badly oversubscribed Hubble. And lower-tech telescopes and microwave detectors, both on the ground and lofted into the air aboard balloons, will continue to refine their measurements...
RADAR FLASHLIGHTS Gene Greneker, a radar expert at Georgia Tech, was fiddling with a radar gun he had developed for monitoring marksmen and archers during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics when he noticed something odd: whenever someone walked on the other side of his laboratory wall, a deflection appeared on the radar screen. One thing led to another, and now Greneker is trying to smooth out the final kinks in his Radar Flashlight, a device that looks like an oversize hair dryer but can penetrate 8-in.-thick nonmetal doors and walls. When radar waves encounter moving objects, like a hostage...