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...days in space, landing on a snowy steppe in Kazakhstan at 7 a.m. (11 p.m. EST Tuesday). Fit, trim and ready with high-fives for earth-bound colleagues, the 52-year-old physician exclaimed "It's Mother Earth" as he and two other cosmonauts emerged from their Soyuz descent capsule. Left behind: a new three-person crew on thespace station Mir, including U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard. (He aims to break the more modest American record of 84 straight days in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRAVITY AGAIN | 3/22/1995 | See Source »

According to Dawn Swan, executive director ofthe community center, nearly 90 percent of thechildren are "of color," including a large numberof Black Americans and those of Caribbean andSouth American descent...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Creativity Emerges in City Day Care | 3/10/1995 | See Source »

...violence, sadism and torture. The thugs, who are thugs' thugs, do not use guns. They smash and stab with clubs and knives. But they are not alone, even the milque-toast David becomes barbaric, sawing up bodies with mad concentration. David's dramatic character change signals the flatmates' descent into a predictable spiral of paranoia...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: Scottish Thriller Isn't Even Six Feet Deep | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

Eight members of the MIT Emergency Response Group were drinking coffee in the lobby of a building across the street when they looked out the window to catch the last few seconds of the helicopter's descent...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Witnesses Describe Dramatic Moment of Terror, Response | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...cheer fervently. Ticker-tape in red, white and blue lands on our faces and on the faces of the fourteen Secret Service drag queens. As the band blares a triumphant rendition of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard," I almost break down in tears. I am part of it: the descent to earth of the deity Michelle Pfeiffer...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: The Rise and Fall of a Goddess | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

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