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Seven astronauts, including the first Israeli in space, were lost Saturday when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart in the skies of Texas. The incident occurred at an altitude of some 200,000 feet, shortly after reentry and 15 minutes before Columbia had been scheduled to land at Cape Canaveral. TIME science correspondent Jeffrey Kluger explains some of the possible causes and consequences of the accident...
Adams House Superintendent Jorge Teixeira said he had a friendship going back years with Laurinda Gomes and Pedro Barbosa. Teixeira said he first met the couple in their native Cape Verde islands. The men worked together for the janitorial company UNICCO in Boston from 1984 to 1988 and remained friends afterward, Teixeira said...
...Years Before the Mast, took a deferment and had the time of his life. To cure his failing eyesight and to test his mettle, he took a leave of absence in 1834 and shipped as a common sailor aboard a ship bound for California, via the South Seas and Cape Horn. His account of the experience is well worth the read...
...into winelands throughout the African continent. The result is Africa Uncorked (Double Storey Books; 288 pages), the Platters' book on "travels in extreme wine territory." A former foreign correspondent and UPI bureau chief in Africa, John Platter dropped out of journalism to buy a farm in the South African Cape, then began making his own wine and writing about it. "I was lucky. I just found I had a nose for it," he says. His safari with Erica, also an ex-journalist, to 13 African wine-producing countries was a nostalgic reminder of a 17,000-km honeymoon trip from...
...best moments in Step Across This Line , Salman Rushdie's provocatively named book of essays (Jonathan Cape; 454 pages), comes when the author is invited on stage at a U2 concert in 1993 by his friend Bono. At the time, Rushdie was in hiding from Muslim assassins after Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him for his allegedly blasphemous novel, The Satanic Verses . Bono, ever the good guy, meant the invitation as a gesture of support. To Rushdie, the moment was a revelation. He suddenly felt "what it's like to have 80,000 fans cheering...