Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with is no different from what everyone seeks. With sharp wit and a touch of pathos. Fierstein can appeal to both gay and straight audiences as he openly reveals how similar are the problems and desires of both worlds and how the worlds are not nearly as far apart as they might superficially seem to be. Arnold is a nightclub drag queen who falls in love, loses his lover to a woman, wants to raise a child, and has to cope with a nagging Jewish mother through it all. It can happen to anyone...
...communications. Satellites are capable of beaming anything from a telephone call to a bank draft around the globe. So many satellites have been sent aloft-at least 3,500-that space is literally getting crowded. (By international agreement, satellites over the equator must be spaced two longitudinal degrees apart-roughly 915 miles-in order to avoid interfering with one another's signals...
...distance maintained with Solar Max. The reason: to save the backpack's propulsion fuel. Meanwhile, ground controllers made plans to slow the satellites' spin from 22 to two rotations a minute. They prepared to send signals, putting the two satellites in the same orbital plane, 690 miles apart...
...space's environment of near total vacuum and near zero gravity. Those conditions cannot be easily duplicated on earth, and they permit heretofore impossible experiments and manufacturing processes. In space, an oil-and-vinegar salad dressing stays perfectly mixed because there is no gravity to pull the ingredients apart. Mixed the same way, superstrong metal alloys could be made in the absence of gravity's pull. Unlike oil and vinegar, the new alloys would then stay together after their return to earth. Deere & Co., the Illinois tractor maker, is investigating the impact of zero gravity on the molecular...
...politicians and that Congress must step in and act, by law, to make the process reasonable. Perhaps the best current proposal is that the long run of primaries be sliced into four separate Tuesdays, one month apart, set not by regions but by time zones. Time zones run from north to south, so parochial regional interests would be blurred. The Eastern time zone clusters New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas; the Midwest time zone clusters industrial Illinois as well as farm states like Kansas and Southern states like Alabama. And so across the nation. Time-zoned primaries would...