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...SYSTEM: NASA scientists are warning satellite operators and power companies to prepare for a large-scale geomagnetic storm that may be capable of disrupting telecommunications and power grids. A major solar eruption on Monday sent more than a million tons of ionized particles hurtling outward; the solar wind should wash over the Earth Wednesday night and Thursday. The eruption was first recorded two days ago by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a two year old satellite stationed in solar orbit. Astronomers credit a similar storm with knocking out a $200 million AT&T communications satellite in January. Though solar storms...
...they find much else. In Kinshasa's fetid slums, there is a new and sinister edge to the desperation. People who cannot afford soap wash their clothes with papaya leaves. Families that cannot pay for funerals bury their dead in rude holes. Single mothers who cannot find jobs feed their babies only once every other day. "Look at me," says Andre Miku, a retired mechanic whose children are hungry because he has sold the television set and the refrigerator and now there is nothing left to hawk. "I've grown so thin. It's not because I'm sick. There...
...miracles erupt into our lives. Perhaps the biblical heaven is too big to be marketable. Perhaps it is a victim of its own, centuries-long hype: so much has been claimed for it, much of it contradictory, that our literal-minded age overloads and calls the whole thing a wash. Or perhaps America has finally got heaven just right. Plain. Unvarnished. Stripped of harps and halos. The current generic heaven still delivers when people need it most, say some unsentimental observers--at the death of a loved one. Why bother with it any other time...
When celebrities are in trouble, they turn to BARBARA WALTERS. A few confessions, some tears to wash away the iniquities, and they're as good as new. But what happens when the mother confessor slips up? In December, Walters did a happy, heartfelt profile on Andrew Lloyd Webber and noted that Disney, which owns ABC, was one of Lloyd Webber's investors. But she neglected to mention that she herself had put $100,000 into Sunset Boulevard. "I should have disclosed the investment," said Walters. "It won't happen again...
...arrives on a slave ship 300 years ago, knowing one English word: "Nigger." It is, or might as well be, his New World name. But Niger, the river, is his origin, his blood flow, which Calvin Baker, 24, a writer for PEOPLE magazine, traces through generations to the brackish wash of present time. Naming the New World (St. Martin's Press; 118 pages; $18.95) is a writer's gamble, a brief, fast-changing swirl of prose sketches, prose-poetry, and poetry standing naked. Such a recitation--it could be chanted, to drum beats, in an evening--might dissipate in artiness...