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...than an extended outing. Sane and prudent citizens sign up for ice-climbing lessons and for bicycle tours across China. Your neighbor's teen-ager hang-glides. It is hardly worth mentioning when a 50-year-old man or woman runs a marathon, although the triathlon, which may consist of a long swim, a bike race and a complete running marathon on the same day, still raises a few eyebrows...
...station, preferring to think through the idea further before submitting it to the Administration. An official on the Space Station Task Force has said, however, that NASA is contemplating a "modest but useful" station with room for six-to-eight crew members. Such a station, which would probably consist of several modules for manufacturing, conducting scientific experiments and other uses, could be in operation by 1991. Possible price tag: $8 billion to $9 billion...
...huge early pictographs like Standard, 1971, have an undeniable, simple power, even a degree of mystery. One realizes where a New York graffiti artist like the fulsomely promoted Keith Haring, 25-the Peter Max of the subways-filched his ideas, a decade later. Penck's paintings consist of stick figures and linear signs, enacting parodies of myth, ritual and archaic language. They draw on a wide range of sources, from algebra to Dipylon vases, from set theory and scribbles on the Berlin Wall to American Indian petroglyphs. Like a lot of earlier modernist art, they quote the "primitive" forms...
This summer, the project to focusing on Poverty Point, located some 150 miles north of Baton Rouge. La--the site of an advanced ceremonial center which has attracted archeological attention worldwide. The structures there consist of tall sloping mounds and a series of terraces in the shape of a semi-circle. Their purpose remains a mystery. The excavations have so far uncovered an estimated 23 million "baked clay objects," round irregular lumps of pottery which look like man made rocks...
...Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington and Republican Charles Mathias of Maryland proposed a bipartisan commission on Central America, similar to the one that helped design the Marshall Plan after World War II. The panel, which would formulate a strategy of economic aid to the whole region, would consist of business, government, labor and religious leaders, and scholars and representatives of the area. Reagan is said to be interested. "We'll be supportive if Congress funds it," said an Administration official...