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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Called Mission to Planet Earth, the program would consist of a series of satellite flights designed to monitor the earth with sensitive instruments that measure such vital signs as temperature, winds and atmospheric chemistry. These readings would add immensely to the knowledge gained from high- resolution photography alone. The object is to understand the planet's dynamics well enough to anticipate ecological disasters -- and find ways to forestall them. The project was suggested in 1987 by a study group led by Sally Ride, America's first woman in space...
...horrible story had circulated in the halls of Glen Ridge (N.J.) High School for months. Last week the scandal broke into the open when police arrested five teenagers and charged them with sexually attacking a mentally impaired 17-year-old girl. According to investigators, the girl was invited to the home of two of the youths on March 1, where she was forced by the five suspects to perform sexual acts and violated with a broomstick and miniature baseball bat while eight other young men watched...
Despite an exhausting days-long walk, frigid air and high fees, climbers are flocking to ascend to the roof of Africa, immortalized in The Snows of Kilimanjaro...
Even when they do not hold high office, the relatives of China's elite enjoy lives of privilege. Known as the taizi pai, or the princes' faction, they attend the best schools, get the best jobs, live in luxury apartments and drive Mercedes-Benz to shop in special stores. Such advantages naturally gall the less favored. "Why him and not me?" asks a party official who was recently leapfrogged by a young taizi pai colleague. "You ponder the question, and the answer is nepotism...
...also revealed a profound regard for the status quo in carrying out one of its principal jobs: the election of 542 members of the Supreme Soviet, which will serve as the country's working legislature. In voting results announced Saturday, most anti-establishment candidates, some of whom had defeated high-ranking Communist Party members to reach the Congress, lost their bids to be seated in the Supreme Soviet. The rebuffed reformers included Boris Yeltsin, the former Moscow party chief who resigned his post in the Construction Ministry earlier in the week, partly in anticipation of being elected to the Supreme...