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The jewel-like temple called Angkor Wat sits in the middle of 125 square miles of impenetrable Cambodian jungle. Although tourists brave the jungles to visit this shrine to Lord Vishnu, few know what exists under the forest canopy. Even recent United Nations maps of the area outside the U.N.-protected archeological park read "God Only Knows." But not for much longer.

Outer space is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's usual playground, where its planetary probes rendezvous with asteroids, piggyback on the solar wind and zip to the fringes of the solar system. But these days, the NASA agency's high-tech wizardry is rediscovering an old world--planet Earth.

And The Winners Are. . . 1992 CITY OF ANGELS AWARDS Long Beach Little League, for winning the Little League World Series title after a Filipino team was found to have cheated. Oscar De La Hoya, the boxer from Los Angeles' Eastside, for fulfilling a promise he made to his dying mother: winning a gold medal in the Olympics. Ric Munoz, a 34-year-old West Hollywood legal secretary and marathon runner, for completing his 50th marathon despite being infected with the AIDS virus.

FICTION 1. BLOOD WORK by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $23.95) An ailing FBI investigator gets a new heart from a murder victim and probes the donor's death. Last Week: 2 ; Weeks on List: 3 2. THE STREET LAWYER by John Grisham (Doubleday: $27.95) After being confronted on a city street, an arrogant lawyer becomes a hero for the homeless. Last Week: 1 ; Weeks on List: 6 3.

Two grand marshals--a descendant of Christopher Columbus and an American Indian--lead Tournament of Roses Parade . . . White supremacist Tom Metzger begins six-month jail term for unlawful assembly in connection with a cross-burning . . . Authorities uncover scheme to kill Police Commission President Stanley K. Sheinbaum . . . Snowstorms in mountains strand thousands . . . First captive-bred California condors freed in the wild . . .

In the movie "Good Will Hunting," an impoverished South Boston kid who scrapes by mopping floors at MIT astonishes prize-winning professors with his ability to solve--at a glance--math problems that have stumped the experts. How likely is this scenario? Could a person with no specialized education instantaneously see his way through intellectual thickets impenetrable to the top people in the field? Even if he is a natural-born genius?

Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes and a scientist companion recently walked across the continent of Antarctica, 1,336 miles of snow and ice, dragging all their food and gear on sleds for 95 days.