Word: capes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: Place your bets, please: will NASA Astronaut David Wolf fly aboard the Shuttle Atlantis Thursday on a Mir-bound mission? Not if Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. has his way. The House Science Committee chairman has been against sending any more boys up that way since June's collision between the Spektr module and a cargo ship, and wants to protect Wolf from becoming "an assistant Mr. Fix-It" aboard the embattled Russian station. That Wolf himself is quite keen to go appears to be beside the point...
Crompton turned to academic biology. He left South Africa to pursue graduate studies in Cambridge, England before returning in 1956 to run a museum in Cape Town...
Then a widower, Crompton married his current wife Ann while working in Cape Town, bringing her three children into his family as well and making, in Ann's words, "every meal like a dinner party...
Crompton left Cape Town with his family in 1964 to run Yale's Peabody Museum, joining other South African expatriates in fleeing "like rats leaving a sinking ship." He says that he found a warmer welcome in another nation of former British subjects...
...anyone who has tried to use a notebook computer on an airplane has probably faced this problem: boot up your notebook over Cape Cod, run out of juice by Philadelphia...