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...authorities tried to pinpoint the losses and pursue other leads, the nation struggled with the disturbing implications of the Walker case and other recent spy arrests. Suddenly, ordinary Americans seemed all too willing to betray their country, not for ideology, as in Stalin's early days, but for money, prestige and thrills. The Walker fiasco also made the U.S. acutely aware of its growing vulnerability to spies. More Soviet agents are operating in the U.S. than ever before, and the number of military and technological secrets is growing exponentially. Says Retired Admiral Bobby Inman, former director of the National Security...
...Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., hunt for another elusive creature of the night: the legendary tenth planet, or Planet X. They comb through the tangled statistics and images transmitted in 1983 from the now defunct orbiting Infrared Astronomical Satellite (I.R.A.S.), struggling to find a single pinpoint source of radiation that over a six-month period has shifted in a particular pattern among the fixed stars, as only a nearby planet can do. Says Daniel Whitmire, a University of Southwestern Louisiana astrophysicist who is involved in the search: "There's a chance it's already been recorded and is awaiting...
Lane, meanwhile, put on a pitching exhibition of her own, refusing to let any Harvard hitters get on base the easy way. Besides showing off pinpoint control and a zippy delivery, she also changed speeds well all afternoon...
...link in the laundering process, the Feds want to get tough about the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, which instructs banks and other financial concerns to file a report (Internal Revenue Service Form 4789) whenever they accept more than $10,000. By running the forms through computers, investigators can pinpoint who is handling inordinate amounts of cash. Until recently, however, the reporting rule has been widely ignored. The second- and third-largest banks in Boston, the Bank of New England and Shawmut Bank, have admitted that they too made unreported cash transfers. Meanwhile, the Treasury Department is investigating at least...
First, at the 5:19 mark Fusco came in after MacDonald fed him from the corner and beat Catamount goalic Tom Draper with a pinpoint shot high to the near post...