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...extra day in space probably added significantly to the mission's cost -NASA would not say by how much - but it provided 20 hours more to collect scientific data. During that extra time, Columbia's instruments monitored a surprise eruption of a huge solar flare, a fiery burst of hot gases from the sun's surface. Such plumes often reach thousands of miles into space and give off a flood of charged particles that can play devilish tricks on spacecraft. In 1979, Skylab, NASA'S abandoned space workshop, came crashing prematurely to earth after its orbit...
Today China cooperates with the U.S. on remarkably varied and important undertakings. There is a joint program to collect intelligence data on Soviet missile tests. Trade has risen from virtually nothng a decade ago to $5.5 billion last year, and the U.S. has become China's third-anking partner in commerce (after Japan and Hong Kong). Some 80 American companies have established offices in Peking, and the Bank of China has started a branch in New York City. Last month China opened 58,000 sq. mi. of potentially rich offshore oil grounds to competitive bidding by 46 oil companies...
...July. Several times. I had heard that Jesus Christ didn't get into an Ivy League college because he got nailed on the Boards. Also that the Educational Testing Service (ETS) scores the tests by kicking them downstairs or by flipping coins. At the College Board, they collect jokes like this and tape them to the outside of their office doors. It helps them feel they're in touch with the outside world...
...second question, requiring a two-thirds majority, would allow the city to collect an extra #10.2 million, completely overriding the fiscal 1983 Prop 2 1/2 cuts...
...HAVEN. Conn.--In a conservation effort. Yale last week started paying six students of Yale Recycling, a formerly all-volunteer group, to collect old news papers for recycling. "The Yale Daily News reported last week...