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Distinguishing between warheads and decoys requires a wealth of information the Pentagon wouldn't have in a real attack and wouldn't be likely to get. But Pentagon officials insist their relatively crude discrimination technologies will keep improving. They say measuring subtle differences in projectiles' mass, motion, reflection and rotation will enable the Pentagon to pluck the real warhead from among the decoys. But the officials decline to detail the technical wizardry behind their assertion, saying that divulging their techniques would only aid potential foes...
Each sensor's 65,000 pixels will feed signals into the interceptor's brain, where lightning-fast calculations involving heat, light, mass and motion are cranked into databases searching for the ballistic fingerprints of enemy warheads. As the interceptor rushes toward its possible targets (the warhead, the balloon and the launch container), it will keep them all within view for as long as possible before discarding the ones its computers say have the least likelihood of being the warhead...
...fear of litigation triumphed. Says Jane Langford, the New Independent's owner: "It goes against the grain here to prevent people from using their own land." Plus, it's hard to stop them. Unlike locales that have contested the Mormons' current wave of temple building (a dispute in Belmont, Mass., seems destined for the Supreme Court), Nauvoo had no zoning laws and no desire to lock legal horns with an opponent worth some $30 billion. When the Mormons anted up $471,000 for town expenses, they got their permit. Most of the townspeople, says Wallace, "were proud of the council...
...science school, students study botany in a state-of-the-art outdoor classroom. To reach the most disengaged parents, the district mounted a full-scale media blitz, postering walls from the city health department to K Mart and taking flyers door to door. The individual schools sent home mass mailings and bought competing ads in the local paper. The district even promised free rides to parents who had trouble getting to their children's schools...
...Edel Carrassquillo of Bronx, N.Y. was arrested by CPD after fleeing from a motor vehicle accident at Mass. Ave. and Exeter Park. Once stopped, Carrassquillo was observed reaching into the legs of his shorts, stating that he kept his license there. At that time a bulge and part of a plastic bag was observed in his socks...