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...Paul sporting a Detroit Tigers cap with the caption BLESS YOU BOYS. The prize for the most spectacularly tasteless souvenir goes to a Detroit firm that is marketing a $55, 30-in.-high aluminum Pope-shaped lawn sprinkler, called Let Us Spray. Not everyone is afflicted with the commercial bug. Some ticket brokers thought scalping for papal rallies would be a bit much. "Frankly, I think it's sacrilegious," said Rick Kline, of Los Angeles' Front Row Center Ticket Service...
...stock-picking bug has even bitten people who would ordinarily take no pleasure in studying price-earnings ratios and balance sheets. "It's so simple, it's insane. If you do this carefully, it's like picking money off trees," declares Michael Petryni, a Los Angeles screenwriter, sounding more like a TV pitchman. But behind the scenes, Petryni spends at least two hours a day studying financial papers like Investor's Daily and following stock quotes using the same computer terminal on which he writes his scripts...
...anything. Lonetree is still charged with passing secret documents and the names of U.S. intelligence officers to the Soviets. Others face courts-martial on less serious matters. But the most stunning charges of spying inside the Moscow embassy have been dropped for lack of evidence. Indeed, no Soviet bug has yet been found anywhere in the current embassy, and there is growing concern that the military may have either blown the investigation or blown it out of proportion or both. Says a ranking U.S. diplomat familiar with the case: "The charge that KGB agents were being led around the embassy...
Compared with the average bug, which goes from birth to death in less than a year, the 17-year cicada is Methuselah: it has the longest life cycle of any known insect. In all, there are twelve distinct broods of 17-year cicadas, each of which emerges in a different year. This year's group is referred to by scientists as Brood 10. The other large group, Brood 14, is due to make its next appearance...
...million on it." That is how much the Pentagon, State Department, CIA and % National Security Agency will request from Congress to replace the compromised communications facilities and pursue other corrective measures. Meanwhile, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence recommended by a 15-to-0 vote to tear down the bug-riddled chancery at the new U.S. embassy in Moscow. Said Committee Chairman David Boren: "Demolish that building while we still can." Building a new one would cost an estimated $23 million more...