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Rachman was never once found guilty of an illegal act, and never once paid a personal income tax. Police and Public Health officers nearly lost their minds trying to trace the true ownership of his 400 to 500 buildings. They would discover that in a single Rachman house different owners were listed for different floors; one company would have a lease to collect rents, another to make repairs, and a third would simply be holding the house "in trust" for one of Rachman's myriad firms...
...likely purpose of the photophores. The creatures that carry the belly searchlights, he says, live at ocean depths (less than 3,000 ft.) where sunlight barely penetrates. These waters are the hunting ground of fish with eyes that point permanently upward. What they normally see is the last faint trace of sunlight, which looks like a dim blue ceiling. When they see a dark and edible-looking object silhouetted vaguely against the ceiling above, they dart up and grab...
Next stop was the Colorado Springs headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command, where Kennedy sat hunched forward in the glass control booth from which NORAD's commander would direct defenses against enemy nuclear attack. In an 18-minute electrically simulated surprise attack, he watched the screen trace a pattern of bomber fleets and missile waves from the Soviet Union. The bombers were stopped, but the intercontinental missiles came on and erupted in eerie white ovals as they struck American cities. Muttered one Air Force officer: "We have no way to stop them." The President emerged from...
...Patently Absurd." The amendments originated in the National Legislative Conference, an organization of state legislators and their staffers. Amendment No. 3 has hardly a chance of success. It is "so patently absurd," says Yale Law Professor Charles L. Black Jr., "that it will probably sink without a trace." Only four legislatures have endorsed it-Alabama, Arkansas, Florida...
Before the suspended sphere can work as a gyroscope, almost every trace of air must be pumped out of the cavity. Then a set of coils creates a rotating magnetic field that spins the sphere like an electric motor. When the rotor reaches a speed of 30,000 r.p.m., the power is shut off and the sphere spins on for weeks or months without appreciable slowing...