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...Education One-room schools are standing their ground in the long battle against extinction. Vouchers start a controversy of their...
Astronomers are excited about the comet not because of what they will observe from the ground but because of the five space probes launched since last year by Europe, Japan and the Soviet Union. The European craft will approach to within 300 miles of the comet's nucleus. A March mission of the space shuttle will be dedicated entirely to Halley's experiments. A battery of cameras, telescopes and mass spectrometers will analyze the comet's 30 million-to-70 million-mile tail and will seek to probe its mysterious, icy heart, which may hold clues to the origin...
...appointed hour, 7 p.m. last Friday, a battalion of helicopters, chartered by enterprising reporters and photographers, hovered above the rambling $6.5 million Malibu home of Kurt Unger, a producer and friend of the bridegroom's parents. Some of the shutterbugs brought their choppers dangerously close to the ground during the ceremony. The whir of the copters' blades drowned out the vows of Rock Singer Madonna Louise Ciccone and Actor Sean Penn, the girl and boy idols of teen America. Said one guest: "No one knew they were married until they kissed...
...leaders broke little new ground on other issues facing them (see chart). While reaffirming their long-standing commitment to halt nuclear proliferation, and pledging to make progress on ongoing talks aimed at reducing conventional forces in Europe and outlawing chemical weapons, they offered no guidance on how these goals would be achieved. Despite the Soviet practice of avoiding the topic of human rights, the statement offered some bland language that "the two leaders agreed on the importance of resolving humanitarian cases in the spirit of cooperation." The summiteers announced they would carry out an agreement, signed earlier, that was aimed...
...midday on Wednesday it was perfectly clear that the two men were not going to agree on the issue of strategic defense. Increasingly, the question became whether they could find any common ground on other issues, or at least enough to enable them to produce a joint statement that would provide the world with some tangible sign of progress...