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...cannot obtain the colorful Lydian hat of Sardis for her daughter Cleis. The historian Herodoturs relates that when Cyrus the Great captured Sardis for the Persians after a siege in 547 B.C., he ordered that the vanquished Croesus be burned alive on a funeral pyre. (Croesus survived when Apollo intervened by sending a rain shower to put out the fire...
...Smithsonian Institution is the repository of national memory. In the celebrated Air and Space Museum, the frail craft that the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, N.C., hovers near the command module of Apollo 11, which first put man on the moon. In the Museum of American History are the portable desk that Thomas Jefferson designed and then used while writing the Declaration of Independence, the original Star-Spangled Banner from Fort McHenry, Md., and one of the first Teddy bears, approved by Teddy Roosevelt himself. Treasures of the Smithsonian by Edwards Park (Smithsonian Books; ($60) is a grand...
...Wildcats second score was the killer. An enormous New Hampshire defenseman, appropriately named Lauren Apollo, fired a slapshot from the left point just inside the Crimson blue line. The blast caught the upper right hand corner...
...Lorie Hutchinson (Terry Stack) 16:22; UNH, Lauren Apollo (unassisted) 1:51; H, Dinny Starr (unassisted) 9:42; UNH, Bridget Steams (Hutchinson, Robin Balducci) 11:07; UNH, Balducci (Hutchinson, Kathy Kazmaler) 17:10; UNH, Balducci (Hutchinson, Apollo...
Originally, NASA had hoped to build the portable lab itself. But after a post-Apollo retrenchment in the space program, the U.S. turned to its European allies for help and in 1973 persuaded them to contribute Spacelab. The partnership has sometimes been stormy. While the Europeans pressed ahead with Spacelab, the shuttle encountered repeated delays and design difficulties. One example: as the shuttle's flying characteristics changed because of NASA's modifications, the original idea of fitting the Spacelab module flush against the shuttle's passenger cabin had to be scuttled, and the unit moved farther back...