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Once free of its boosters, the interceptor's first job is to confirm where it is. It will do that by finding stars that match a map stored in its memory chips. Having fixed its own location, the interceptor will turn its telescope toward the target's expected location. As the interceptor and mock warhead travel to within 500 miles of each other, the interceptor should pick up the warhead, along with the decoy balloon and launch container. From here on out--in the final 100 seconds--the interceptor will be on its own, getting no guidance from the ground...
...Jefferson, the local main street, Weird Harold's Records survives because Dan Bessine, 52, has found a niche the chains can't match. He sells vinyl records on the Internet (find him at Weirdharolds.com) At Valley and Third, the Hotel Burlington reopened as a senior-housing complex this year after sitting vacant for 20 years. And Schramm's department store, which closed five years ago after 150 years of operation, is reopening piece by piece, as a restaurant, small shops and loft apartments...
...allowing customers to name what they are willing to pay for plane tickets, hotel rooms, toothpaste, phone calls to Lithuania and then pocketing any difference between that and the wholesale price--is made possible by the Net and some nifty patented transaction software. Only through the Web could you match millions of bids with millions of products, all without a fixed price...
...rest of us will be stuck with the fanfare - after being treated to such sparkling pre-match headlines as "Advantage: Williams" and "Sister Act," the face-off will get even more publicity than the undercard: a showdown between curvaceous second-round flameout Anna Kournikova and a full-length mirror...
Richard Williams has invited himself to a friend of a friend's funeral in order to avoid the paternal pain of watching a grinning, shrieking, fist-pumping blood match between daughters Venus and Serena on Centre Court at Wimbledon Thursday. "One of them is going to be buried," Williams said. "I might as well go to a real funeral. At least I get the music...