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...episodes The Great One dug out of storage this past winter. "I think this is the right time," he said, when he revealed their existence. "I'm sick of watching those other ones." True devotees greeted the news of the cache as if it were the discovery of a tenth symphony by Beethoven. In September, Showtime, the pay-cable channel, will begin running weekly collections of the newly released sketches, which vary in length from seven to 45 minutes; a year or so after that, Viacom will put them into regular syndication...
...Shoemakers chart the asteroids' travels, astronomers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., hunt for another elusive creature of the night: the legendary tenth planet, or Planet X. They comb through the tangled statistics and images transmitted in 1983 from the now defunct orbiting Infrared Astronomical Satellite (I.R.A.S.), struggling to find a single pinpoint source of radiation that over a six-month period has shifted in a particular pattern among the fixed stars, as only a nearby planet can do. Says Daniel Whitmire, a University of Southwestern Louisiana astrophysicist who is involved in the search: "There...
...Planet X theory of periodic comet showers has greater potential. For one thing, a still undiscovered planet has a distinct advantage over Nemesis as a promising candidate because astronomers have been predicting its existence since the late 19th century, first as the ninth planet and then as the tenth. Reason: its existence and gravitational pull might explain discrepancies in the movements of Neptune and Uranus. Even the discovery of Pluto in 1930 did not fulfill the gravitational force needed to justify Uranus' meanderings, and some astronomers have long thought that a tenth planet is somewhere out there. Astronomer Robert Harrington...
Among the bitterest reactions was that of Secretary of State George Shultz. At a ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Shultz said the contra cutoff had dire implications: "Broken promises. Communist dictatorship. Refugees. Widened Soviet influence, this time near our very border." Then he added angrily: "Here is your parallel between Viet Nam and Central America...
...Israeli army last week continued its slow withdrawal from southern Lebanon, pulling back from the area around the town of Nabatiyah as Lebanese cheered their departure. Another milestone was reached: the tenth anniversary of Lebanon's seemingly endless civil war, which has cost more than 100,000 lives...