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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Egypt's domestic economy is a mess. Despite a growth rate of about 8% this year, the bulk of the country's 40 million people remain desperately poor, with an average income of under $300 (vs. $2,700 for Israel). In the past year, thousands of peasants have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Egypt's Promise of Peace | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Until now all space probes have been powered entirely by chemical rockets. Though they can develop enormous thrust, they are voracious consumers of fuel. In only nine minutes, the Saturn 5 moon rockets burned up 3,000 tons of liquid fuel. With such propellants, even larger rockets and exorbitant amounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tailing a Comet | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

If Congress provides the needed funding, the probe will be carried into earth orbit by the space shuttle in the summer of 1985. Boosted by a conventional rocket, it will fly off toward the comet, gradually accelerated by its cluster of six or eight small ion engines, during the four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tailing a Comet | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Tiny but hardly fragile, she flew tourist class, praying briefly before the jet touched down at Oslo's Fornebu Airport. Dressed as always in blue-trimmed white sari and sandals, with a threadbare wool overcoat her only concession to subfreezing temperatures, Serbian-born Mother Teresa, 69, the "angel of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 24, 1979 | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Actress Jean Stapleton might well be considered a new driving force behind the Equal Rights Amendment. Currently on a ten-city tour with a production of George Kelly's Daisy Mayme, she has been steering limousine services onto the road toward employment equality by requesting female drivers whenever she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 24, 1979 | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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