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Astronomer Friedman would like next to monitor 3C 273's X-ray luminosity to determine if it varies as widely as the quasar's visible light. He would also like to get an X-ray spectrum, which might help unlock more of the quasars secrets. Either procedure would require a longer look at quasar X rays than can be obtained during the fleeting minutes that an X-ray telescope can be rocketed above the earth's atmosphere. The answer, Friedman says, is an X-ray telescope in an orbiting satellite or, better yet, one on the surface...
...miles south of Boston, where he had been held; police, on foot, in cars and a helicopter, searched the area for DeSalvo and the two other inmates-a wife slayer and a robber-who had fled with him. The trio had used a key they made in prison to unlock their cell doors. DeSalvo's brothers were arrested and charged with being accessories after the fact; within recent months DeSalvo had transferred $2,600 in veterans' and Social Security payments to them...
...hopes to find clues to when and how the earth came to be. The biologist wants to know if there are any vestiges of existence there that might solve the riddle of what life really is. The astronomer hopes that a definitive look at the moon could help unlock the secret of how the solar system was formed. The astronaut wants to go because it is there...
...fluid dynamics and aerodynamics, Chang has worked on nuclear reactors for space propulsion, plasma studies for controlled nuclear fusion reactions, and new structural techniques for aircraft. But ever since he saw an aircraft factory in Nanking destroyed by a sudden twister 35 years ago, he has been determined to unlock the secrets and tame the fury of tornadoes. His artificial storm has now given him his first hope of success...
...Union Internationale d' Analyse Economique et Financière, a Paris-based company better known as Eurofinance. Alexandre's desert is Western Europe, where companies keep information secret that would be routinely available in the U.S. The job of Eurofinance's well-equipped men is to unlock the secrets and break the silence, collecting for clients complete statistics on corporate holdings, activities and profits throughout a continent...