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...than Neptune is.) Voyager's aging cameras and electronic sensors are somewhat impaired, and the probe is so distant that its signals take four hours to travel to earth. Still, scientists expect mounds of fresh data and some 8,000 photographic images, entirely new information about a little known object that is almost four times the size of earth but appears in earthly telescopes only as a fuzzy blue-green ball...
Though Voyager is still about 22 million miles from Neptune, it has already made several discoveries. It has found a new moon to add to the known duo, % Triton and Nereid. Labeled 1989-N1, the object is between 125 and 400 miles across and has a surprisingly ordinary orbit. Like most moons, 1989-N1 orbits nearly over its planet's equator and in the same direction as the planet's rotation, implying that it formed with or soon after Neptune...
...filling it with photographs and clippings, making it a sort of shrine. "Families should take this seriously," warns Dietz, "but they usually don't." The next step in the compulsion often involves travel, according to De Becker, first in a random pattern, then with a purpose: to follow the object of their desires...
...lies sound like a smirking stag reel. But this is not an "adult film" in the X-rated sense; it is an adult film, "patient and subtle," in its creator's apt words. It is about men who use women by watching them, and women tired of being the object of satyric attention. What amazes is that at just 26, Soderbergh displays the three qualities associated with mature filmmakers: a unique authorial voice, a spooky camera assurance, and the easy control of ensemble acting (Andie MacDowell, start polishing your acceptance speech). Soderbergh delivers so much and promises even more...
Duke had moved into the room early because he was on Dorm Crew the week before, and he had already claimed a bottom bunk. I was not going to object, given the nasty squint he gave me when I introduced myself. I didn't realize that he couldn't see without his contact lenses, but I felt a little more relaxed a few minutes later when I helped him escape after he had locked himself into the bathroom...