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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...primary advance of Release 3, which sells for $495, is its ability to link as many as 256 spreadsheets in one computer file, creating an almost three-dimensional effect in the way they can be combined to make different calculations. Lotus plans to offer a simpler version, called Release 2.2, within a few months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMPUTERS: What Took So Long, 1-2-3? | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...secret Defense Department satellite began a premature and fatal tumble, and the tracking system that keeps exact tabs on some 19,000 objects in earth orbit briefly lost track of 11,000 of them. Solar Max descended by as much as half a mile in a single day, almost certainly hastening its demise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fury on The Sun | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...long been pre-eminent in human thoughts and actions. Almost from the beginning, people worshiped the sun as the beneficent provider of light and life, and as a god, called Ra by the Egyptians, Helios by the Greeks and Sol by the Romans. To the Aztecs, the sun god was Huitzilopochtli, whom they nourished with human sacrifices. Egypt's great pyramids at Giza were built with their sides aligned with the rising sun at the vernal equinox, and the temple complex at Karnak was dedicated to Ra. The ancient circle at Stonehenge, in England, was apparently constructed so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fury on The Sun | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...period of national mourning for the late Imam, Rafsanjani arrived in Moscow to an elaborate reception. The visit was the beginning of a thaw between neighbors whose relations had been frosty for most of Khomeini's rule. Said Rafsanjani after his first day: "I already feel almost at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Just a Little Like Home | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...impact there was a thundering shudder, followed by the wail of the ship's siren. In one of the Maxim Gorky's restaurants, as the pianist was playing The Green, Green Grass of Home, a heavy loudspeaker crashed down on the instrument. The passengers, almost all West German pensioners who had boarded in Bremerhaven, stumbled on deck into freezing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas SOS Under the Midnight Sun | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

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