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...space: the construction of a permanent orbital station housing up to twelve people. They would perform scientific experiments, test manufacturing processes in microgravity (like the biological separation of impurities from drugs conducted aboard Columbia) and keep a watch on both the heavens and earth. Estimated costs of this habitat in the sky range from $3 billion to $5 billion. Still, Reagan did not shut the door entirely. Said he: "We must look aggressively to the future by demonstrating the potential of the shuttle and establishing a more permanent presence in space." Columbia, in its four stirring voyages to date, surely...
...eager to get NASA "out of the space trucking business" and back into its primary role as a research and development agency that opens up new avenues to the high frontier of space. Beggs already has one idea he wants NASA to pursue: "platform," a building the permanent first habitat true space where scientist astronauts could live and work in orbit. With a little trucking help from the shuttle, of course. - - By By Frederic Golden...
...poignant introduction, Maurice Sendak, doyen of children's literature, notes that the first three books in Babar's Anniversary Album (Random House; $12.95) were written by a young, dying father who supplied Babar and the other sensitive pachyderms with a philosophy as warm as their habitat. Jean de Brunhoff's son Laurent wrote the last three works with no falling-off of humor or warmth. Brunhoff pére et fils double-page compositions, replete with elephantine architecture, landscapes and jokes, have the logic of fantasy and the color of gift wrapping...
...19th century hobbyists collected condor eggs, which could fetch $300. During the 1849 gold rush, its hollow quill feathers, waterproof and ½ in. in diameter, were favored as gold-dust containers. Even after the condor became a federally protected species in 1963, farming and development continued to destroy its habitat. Where condors once flourished by the thousands, all the way from Canada to Baja California, today fewer than 30 remain, living mainly in 54,000 acres of sanctuary north of Los Angeles...
...authorities did not pick up Boyce's scent until a sighting in Washington State in late July. They soon focused on the remote Olympic Peninsula. One reason: it is a habitat of falcons, Boyce's passion since childhood and the source of his nickname in a bestselling book about his spy exploits. FBI agents also suspected that Boyce was involved in a series of bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest. A suspicious title switch on a boat license turned up the name Anthony E. Lester, of Beaver, a small town 50 miles west of Port Angeles. The photograph...