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...Slayton announced that Houston-based Space Services, his private rocket-launching company, would soon begin sending aloft the cremated remains of customers who want to be buried in space. He said that for a fee of $3,900, the deceased would be reduced to an ounce or less of ash and placed in a 2-in. by 5/8-in. aluminum capsule. A drum containing 5,000 of the capsules would then be shot into orbit in a Conestoga II rocket...
Perhaps Hemingway had trouble with the prospect of publishing the fantasies he was entertaining. His hero, David Bourne, is a young writer whose wife cuts her hair as short as a man's and dyes it ash-white, and persuades him to exchange sex roles in a way whose mechanics are not explained. The man is to be the woman and the woman is to act the man. In bed, they do "devil things," also unexplained, and the wife brings a lesbian lover into their menage...
Last summer Walker, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University medical school, was looking for baboon fossils, when he spotted the skull fragment. By studying volcanic ash and other bones nearby, his colleagues determined the skull's age. Its pedigree was trickier. It has the structure of a late australopithecine: wide palate, huge rear molars, enormous cheekbones and a pronounced crest of bone running along the top of the skull. But other features -- a for- ward-thrusting muzzle, an orangutan-size brain and an apelike jaw structure -- are primitive. Leakey believes this mosaic suggests, as he has argued for years...
Meteors, which are asteroids or cometary debris that has entered the atmosphere, continually shower the earth. Most of them are small and either break up or are burned to ash by frictional heat generated by their plunge through the atmosphere. But, explains Shoemaker, the incineration of larger asteroids is far more violent. An asteroid 80 ft. across, striking the atmosphere at 50,000 m.p.h., compresses the air in its path so much that in effect the asteroid is stopped dead in its tracks, converting kinetic energy almost instantaneously into heat, light and a powerful shock wave. That causes a tremendous...
...prospective scientists by stressing research opportunities in such regionally important fields as weather science, marine biology, tropical diseases and geriatric ailments among Florida's huge senior citizen population. "We're rapidly becoming this generation's Stanford," exults Foote. But if Miami's reach still exceeds this bold grasp, Ash is convinced the school's recent steps have been in the right direction: "We're not educating the masses anymore." Apparently not. Tuition will...