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...next liftoff should come in April, when the shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to send a craft called Magellan on its way to Venus. The space probe will begin orbiting the planet next year, using radar to map its cloud-hidden surface. The best maps now in existence, compiled by Soviet spacecraft, show features as small as a quarter-mile across, but Magellan is expected to do about ten times as well...
...calls for elimination of 70% of smog-producing emissions in the Los Angeles area by the year 2000. In the plan's first five-year phase, 123 separate regulations will ban the use of aerosol hair sprays and deodorants and require companies, regardless of the cost, to install the best antismog equipment available. But one of the plan's primary objectives is to break the city's addiction to the internal-combustion engine. First, it imposes stricter emission standards and forces employers to encourage car pooling. Then it calls for conversion of most vehicles to methanol and other cleaner burning...
...sides at the hearing, however, could agree on one thing: the best solution to the abortion dilemma is to prevent unwanted pregnancies. "Most abortions would not take place," noted the Surgeon General, "if pregnancies were not unplanned and unwanted." He and others called for better research into contraception and improved sex education as important steps toward reducing the need for abortions...
...This is the best team I've been on in my four years at Harvard," Konovalchik says. "It's a tight-knit team. We push each other to work harder and that enhanced the team's performance...
...social life is not everything--more crucial to members of the Quad are suites and facilities, which according to President Derek C. Bok and Associate Dean of Physical Resources Phillip J. Parsons are the best on campus...