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...some, computer camping is a family affair. Hedy Messinger brought her mother, 68, and her two children, Candy, 7, and Mark, 13, to Clarkson College's Family Computer Camp in Potsdam, N.Y. At first, she was fearful that a heavy dose of computerese would bore her parent. Not so. "She was absolutely riveted," says Messinger. "We had to drag her away from the machine just to make sure she got nourishment...
...time with their slow march. The 150 women, who had walked more than 200 miles from Dortmund, West Germany, led a 1,000-strong parade near NATO's Brussels headquarters last Saturday to mark the 38th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. But many of their banners also bore slogans that reflected a more immediate concern: FOR A EUROPE FREE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. NO PERSHING IIS. NO CRUISE MISSILES. The protest was a harbinger of what Europeans predict will be a "hot autumn" in which millions of people will take to the streets to protest the imminent deployment...
Pearson might have wanted a second try, for Gimli was anything but abandoned. The 150 members of the Winnipeg Sports Car Club had come out to the strip for a weekend of car racing. As the jet bore down on the strip, they dived for cover. Recalls Art Zuke, 14, who was pedaling his bicycle on the tarmac: "I saw this thing flying sort of sideways. It was getting lower and lower and closer and closer...
...world, they lived in an almost medieval state. The turmoil of the industrial revolution was all but unknown to them. The shogun's court at Edo received various dispatches from pairs of strong-legged runners, one of whom carried state documents in a lacquered box while the other bore a lantern marked "official business." In imperial Kyoto, the Empress and her ladies followed a custom of blackening their teeth...
...other scientists dropped the widely publicized' "be" bombshell. Essentially, Meselson and his colleagues are arguing that the spots on leaves and rocks cited by the government as evidence of yellow rain may well be nothing more than bee excrement. Samples of bee feces collected at Harvard bore striking similarities--in size, general appearance, and specific characteristics--to samples and descriptions of samples of spots said to be yellow rain, according to Meselson and four other scientists--including. Harvard botanist Peter S. Ashton, director of the Arnold Arboretum...