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...economy with both market forces and central control. In the coming months the G-7 countries will keep tabs on how reform is moving and consider whether they will be able to put some money where their advice is. The knowledge that the West is watching may help steel Gorbachev's own resolve to push for significant changes...
...eclipse, when it is not obscured by the sun's bright glare. From the 12 o'clock position, an enormous red-orange flame flared beyond the halo; smaller "prominences" appeared at the 3 and 6 o'clock positions. Murmurs of wonder rose from the shivering crowd draped in the steel-gray light. "Mind blowing," said Edward Kuba, University of Hawaii regent. "Wonderful, wonderful," pronounced Sony chairman Akio Morita, one of several VIPs present, as he gazed through a new video camera from his company. Then, with stunning suddenness, the four minutes of totality ended, another diamond ring appeared...
Hispanic immigrant-support groups in California are indignant about the latest U.S. attempt to seal the border with Mexico. In mid-June military reservists began placing thick steel sheets along a 14-mile stretch between Tijuana and San Diego County. The metal is surplus landing-strip material from the gulf war. Some residents on both sides find the wall offensive, but the U.S. stands firm. "The Immigration and Naturalization Service is simply trying to do what it can with a limited budget," says a U.S. embassy official...
...creature's arms elongate into gleaming spikes that impale people and latch onto moving cars. It can appear as a bulge in the floor, transforming itself into a humanoid that then proceeds to walk through a steel gate, its artificial skin oozing between the bars like melted butter. Frozen by liquid nitrogen, it is shattered into a thousand pieces, but its fragments congeal again into a glistening body of liquid chrome...
...human form, ILM employed a process nicknamed Morph, as in metamorphosis, first developed in 1988 for the film Willow. Footage of the robot and footage of actor Robert Patrick were coded and fed into the computer, which blended one into the other. The illusion of walking through steel bars was created by another pioneering method that ILM technicians have dubbed "Make Sticky." Footage of Patrick walking unimpeded down a corridor was layered over a computer-enhanced three-dimensional image. As the computer image "melts" to simulate flesh deforming between computer-generated "bars," so does its onscreen counterpart...