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...National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is entering final negotiations with the local Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to develop a center for the supervision and guidance of AXAF--Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility--an orbiting x-ray telescope planned for launch...
Until the launch of the telescope in 1998, the observatory will assist in the planning and development of AXAF. After that the observatory will also become a "central clearinghouse" for information sent from the satellite...
With seven American fashion magazines already telling millions of women what to wear, it was hard to imagine that the fledgling Mirabella might come up a winner. But the adult, upscale answer to today's youth-oriented competition has found a rich niche since its launch in June 1989. Baby boomers hungry for an intelligent magazine of fashion combined with informed life-style features are finding Mirabella surprisingly to their taste...
...hotel parking lot, five helicopters were ready. When the Senators declined, uniformed officers in the room laughed derisively, Simpson says. (Later the Senators spoke among themselves of the hazards of flying in Iraqi helicopters.) Saddam told them that should Israel ever attack, his generals had instructions to launch everything in their arsenal at the Jewish state -- even if he were dead...
During the night, B-52s pounded Iraqi positions and helicopter gunships swept the defense lines, firing rockets at tanks and artillery pieces and machine-gunning soldiers in the trenches. Allied artillery opened an intense bombardment from howitzers and multiple-launch rocket systems that released thousands of shrapnel-like bomblets over the trenches. Everything was ready for the ground troops to begin moving in the last hours of darkness, taking advantage of the allies' superior night-vision equipment...