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...planet nor UFO. It was the space shuttle Discovery putting on a spectacular light show on its way into orbit for eight days of atmospheric research. The successful -- at last! -- launch was a big relief for NASA. Two days earlier, Discovery's countdown was halted 11 seconds before lift-off because of a faulty computer circuit. Two weeks before that miscue, a mission by sister shuttle Columbia was scrubbed just three seconds before launch, after a valve got stuck. Columbia is still sitting on the ground at Cape Canaveral...
...tempting to make excuses for violence. The mugger came from a broken home and was trying to lift himself out of poverty. The wife beater was himself abused as a child. The juvenile murderer was exposed to Motley Crue records and Terminator movies. But do environmental factors wholly account for the seven-year-old child who tortures frogs? The teenager who knifes a teacher? The employee who slaughters workmates with an AK-47? Can society's ills really be responsible for all the savagery that is sweeping America? Or could some people be predisposed to violence by their genes...
...trend reverses," Hayes says, "the rising tide will lift us along with the other ships...
Among enlistees, the loudest grousing concerns Clinton's proposal to lift the ban on gays. The issue heated up again last week, as the Senate Armed Services Committee held its first round of public hearings on the ban. As with most service personnel, the members of the Senate committee -- who seemed more inclined to lecture than listen -- have long since made up their minds. Although committee chairman Sam Nunn has been one of the harshest critics of Clinton's proposal, he clearly hopes to find a middle ground that won't leave the military badly divided. The word around...
...also the media frenzy that surrounded it. TV reporters try to sweet-talk their way into the principals' homes. Friends and relatives battle over selling their stories to Hollywood. "Mom, when they make the movie, can I play myself?" asks Wanda's daughter as if she were seeking a lift to the mall. Layers pile on layers: we watch as Wanda watches herself on Donahue and A Current Affair; the film's producer and writer appear as themselves; and the entire story is framed by a videotaped "interview" with Wanda wearing a new blond hairstyle but the same bone-chilling...