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...pilot and former press-relations officer for the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee, Prince Sultan, 28, has been in training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston since early April. His other duties aboard the Discovery will include acting as a subject for medical experiments. One study will examine a curious side effect of low-gravity orbital flight: a height gain of up to two inches. Returning to earth can cut an astronaut back down to size in more ways than...
Norris is not magnetic; he does not even have the freak appeal of Mr. T. His / popularity, all in all, is curious. The hard-core audience does appreciate his athletic bona fides. Also, says Code of Silence Producer Raymond Wagner, "he's an enormously nice human being, and that can be sensed on the screen." Norris indeed seems like a nice guy: married for 26 years, doting father of two loving sons, loyal to his friends. "The character I want to build," he said last week during the filming of Invasion U.S.A., "is a man who believes in the right...
...saga of Ibnet camp grew more and more curious as the days went by. First, foreign relief workers watched with incredulity as Ethiopian officials abruptly ordered some 30,000 famine-weakened residents out of the refugee camp, burned down their huts and told them to begin walking back to their homes, many a two-week trek away. Then an official in Addis Ababa, the capital, dismissed the accounts of a forced evacuation as fabrications. Eventually the Foreign Ministry issued a splenetic communique calling the stories "a shockingly big lie" that betrayed the tendency of "high-ranking officials of the Reagen...
...anniversary of almost everything. Americans have been pitched back into unstable regions of memory, back into Viet Nam and wartime Europe. Sometimes the experience has been disconcerting. The past only looks dead. Ronald Reagan, quintessential American and oldest President, did not seem entirely to grasp that. He displayed a curious insensitivity about the past, as if he did not know how important it is, or how dangerous it can be. As if he did not know that the past has monsters in it. His eyes accustomed to sunshine, Reagan did not peer carefully enough into the shadows...
...harp on the entrance door that emits a sound with every visitor. It seems that all that passes through the door the politics the passions, play on the impressionable Ilana, too. Potok has written a Bildangstoman, a portrait of the artist as a young girl whose watchful eyes and curious mind set upon the whirlwind times and enigmatic people at surround...