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...most boys what they are going to be when they grow up, and they might answer that they want to be a policeman, an astronaut or whatever Daddy is. But when someone asked Jonathan Sheer, 12, that question, he answered without hesitation: "I want my mother...
...toilet, I have another purpose. I want to understand how NASA works and how it's been successful," said the Florida Democrat, who by no coincidence is chairman of the Space Science and Applications subcommittee. His special assignment during the five-day flight will be to grow crystals in space for cancer research. But first he will have to learn to be a bit more careful. Despite warnings about the disorientation he would feel during simulated zero-gravity training on a plane, Nelson did what came naturally. "I used to think how it would be great to push...
...increasing cigarette sales in Third World countries are encouraging to tobacco manufacturers. If the habit continues to grow in nations like Kenya, where consumption is up 8% annually, the cigarette companies will have to provide these people with artificial lungs within a generation. Robert G. Arthur Kings Park...
...seed for Berra's bumper harvest was planted last summer at a celebrity golf tournament near Grand Forks, N. Dak. Berra reportedly asked what folks around those parts did for a living and was told that they grew potatoes. To which Berra replied, "I didn't think they'd grow enough here to fill up my driveway. "His comment reached the local Red River Valley Potato Growers Association, which decided to prove the catcher-manager and new Houston Astros coach wrong by trucking 46 50-lb. boxes to his door. Berra's not telling, but what deliveryman could have resisted...
Citing evidence from bore samples taken in southern Florida, Petuch says that, after impact, coral began to grow on the raised rim of the crater, forming a circular atoll-like formation. Later, when the sea level rose, the atoll gradually elongated into an ellipse as the coral (which seeks warm waters) migrated toward the shallows north of the original crater. Some 1.8 million years ago, the atoll contained an inland sea continually replenished by ocean waters. But as the rising coral walls gradually closed out the ocean, newly deposited sediments' piled up in the forming lagoon. The inland sea shrank...