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...Perseids because they appear to emanate from the constellation Perseus, just as the Leonids, cast-off material from another comet, appear to radiate from a point in Leo. While most of the cometary debris consists of small particles, each tiny piece traveling at such high speed packs a mighty wallop capable of inflicting severe damage on anything it encounters. Consequently, satellites orbiting above the protective atmosphere during a heavy meteor shower are vulnerable. With this danger in mind, NASA prudently postponed last week's scheduled launch of the shuttle Discovery, which otherwise would have been in orbit during the height...
WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, long considered a potential presidential candidate, may toss his hat in the ring for the Senate in 1994 as a warm-up. Sources say he's considering a campaign for the seat of Wyoming Republican Malcolm Wallop, who may leave the Senate to run for Governor. For the record, Cheney, who served in the House of Representatives from 1979 to 1989, says, "I haven't made any decisions" on a Senate try but confirms that "I'm interested in the 1996 race" for the presidency...
...scientists calculate that for objects having diameters of 100 m or more that are spotted late in the game and intercepted at a distance any closer than about 150 million km (93 million miles), only nuclear explosives pack enough wallop to avert disaster. At that distance, the energy needed to deflect a 2-km-wide (1 1/4-mile) object enough to spare Earth is about the equivalent of a 1-megaton nuclear explosion. If the object gets to about a tenth of that distance, the energy required is 100 megatons, more powerful than any nuclear device yet exploded...
...funky, hiphop beats and bright, soulful melodies set a widely influential musical style, fitting perfectly around Brown's slim vocal talents. Naturally, expectations were out of sight for Brown's latest solo outing, Bobby, which assembles the same producers as Cruel. The album, however, doesn't pack the wallop to distinguish it from other slick R. & B. records on the charts these days. Something in Common, a ballad Brown shares with his wife Whitney Houston is typical of the problem: short on juice but heavy on sap. New jack may not be exhausted, but right now Bobby is fresh...
...someone who transcribes other people's words truly be called a writer? In Terkel's case the question seems irrelevant. His books may not have the scope of literature or the authority of social science, but they do pack the wallop of theater -- particularly the declamatory, political theater of the 1930s as exemplified by Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty...