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Americans must ask themselves which parts of the space program affect them most. Is it the occasional space-walk to repair the malfunctioning mechanical arm, or is it the film of Joe Astronaut playing with the tax-payers' little, magnetic, space-marbles...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: In Space, No One Can Hear the Deficit | 7/6/1993 | See Source »

SOMETIME LAST MONDAY afternoon, Francois Nassau rested his distended belly on the floor of his father's hovel, curled one thin arm under his head, and quietly died. So silent was the boy's passing that his mother did not realize he was gone until she tried to rouse him. Francois was nine years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: A Passage from Petit-Trou | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

...that the Coast Guard will be overwhelmed, allowing perhaps a handful of boats to make it through. If Petit-Trou's vessel is not among the fortunate few, the village, like Francois Nassau, will surely have outstripped its endurance. Perhaps then it will simply curl up, tuck an arm beneath its head, and quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: A Passage from Petit-Trou | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

...brought in the padded brown envelope with the day's mail. He saw nothing unusual about the package, but when Epstein, a geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, opened the package, it exploded. Rushed to the hospital, Epstein lost several fingers on his right hand, broke an arm and suffered severe abdominal injuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blasts From the Past | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

Within an hour of the family's arrival at Georgetown Hospital, John Paul's grand birthday celebration has turned into a picnic in a tiny emergency-room cubicle where the boy lies with a stream of antibiotics running into his arm. Soon the Cisneroses get good news: the infection is under control, and the child can go home for the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches Most Hearts Go Ker-thump | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

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