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...seems happy -- as few of her screen characters are -- in a craft she does well and with a man who loves her. "Dave is noncompetitive," she says, "and men sometimes don't have that feeling about a successful woman." Ryder pauses briefly. "That's the first time I've referred to myself as a woman...
...completed its Grand Tour of the planets and was speeding out into deep space on its way to the stars. But the temptation of one last backward look was irresistible. Swinging its camera around, it took snapshots of the now distant planets as they might appear to an alien craft approaching the solar system...
...looks ahead to the time when humans will fly from a dying or imperiled Earth to other worlds, "terraforming" them to make them livable and inhabiting them to preserve the species. Sagan writes that space flight has already provided early warnings of possible dangers to Earth. Data radioed from craft exploring Venus and Mars, for example, have helped make us aware of the consequences of such potential man-made disasters as the greenhouse effect and the destruction of the ozone layer. Perhaps even more important, spacecraft may one day prevent a global catastrophe by diverting a large asteroid speeding toward...
...irony of the crisis over the Cuban boat people is that many of those who risked their lives to get to the U.S. aboard rickety, homemade craft are taking to the water again. This time, though, they are heading back to Cuba. They lay their cots over the barbed wire that blocks their path to Guantanamo Bay. If they reach the water and swim to the other side, they'll be in Cuban territory...
...Small-plane pilots often do all this themselves.) At yesterday's crash site, crews hacked through dense forest to remove burned bodies from the wreckage of the two-engine Jetstream turboprop, the smallest type flown by American Eagle. Fifteen of 20 people on board died. A larger American Eagle craft crashed in Indiana Oct. 31, killing all 68 aboard. A Jetstream 41 -- similar to the plane in the North Carolina accident -- crashed Jan. 7 near Columbus, Ohio, killing five people; authorities believed pilot error caused...