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...canned Russian perch -- American astronaut Norman Thagard has broken the U.S. space endurance record set by three Skylab astronauts in 1974. Now, he's ready for the green hills of Earth. "I miss my family," said Thagard, who became the first American to be launched on a Russian rocket Mar. 14. "I've got three sons and a wife and two cats, and I like them all and I miss them." Unfortunately, he's got another month to go. One Skylab astronaut, Edward Gibson, today radioed up some moral support: "Norm, keep on trucking...
...friends chose the scenic route, biking up the Gold Coast through Vero Beach, off the coast of Cape Hatters in North Carolina and up the Del Mar pennisulla off the coast of Delaware. "We kind of avoided the major cities," Coleman said...
...Japanese Cabinet held an emergency meeting at dawn as tens of thousands ofchemical warfare and regular troopswent on alert. They were bracing for possible retaliation after policearrested Shoko Asahara, the Japanese cult leader, and 14 of his followers. Asahara was charged Monday with murder inthe Mar. 20 nerve gas attack on Tokyo subways. The bearded, 40-year-old guru was meditating alone in a hidden, steel-fortified room at the Aum Shinri Kyo cult's rural compound beneath Mount Fuji when police broke in last night. He surrendered peacefully, with one proviso: "Don't touch me," investigators said he told...
...them to understand when we say that the Oklahoma City incident was none of these things. Moreover, we introduce them to the tools of real murder, and expect them not to carry out the lessons they learned from their video games. Stories of children killing children far too often mar the front pages of national newspapers...
...person at Harvard of whom I'm certain. So I ask myself, do I really need to know what He looks like? Would I even want to know? After all, physical appearances could never transcend what Menu Man and I have together. I wouldn't want to mar the purity and innocence of our correspondence by subjecting it to the stain of superficiality. Besides, the enigma just adds to the sex appeal. It's not just the virile way He pronounces, "Moo Goo Gai Pan" that makes my stomach do flip-flops, it's the fact that...