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...after six days in space and 95½ orbits of the earth, if the schedule holds and winds and weather are fair, Challenger will end its flight. Crippen and his copilot, Rick Hauck, 42, will glide the 100-ton craft to the first shuttle landing on the new three-mile-long runway at the Kennedy Space Center, with President Reagan looking on. Thus Challenger, which was prepared for flight in a record 63 days, will avoid the long and expensive cross-country piggyback haul that followed previous touchdowns on the Western deserts. The price for the convenience is far less...
White Hen Pantry: Located down Mass. Ave. past the Cambridge Common, you'll find the mile walk towards Porter Square worth it if you are a deli maven. It has twice as big a selection of packaged food as the 24 and open the whole day and night. The added bonus is the delicatessen offering, where someone will make you a relatively good deli sandwich and fresh salad. This is the sleeper of the group, and the walk is beautiful these days and should keep you awake if the food doesn...
...perhaps the most savage assault since the invasion. There are, according to Western estimates, some 105,000 Soviet troops now in Afghanistan. Using tanks, helicopters and fighter-bombers, these forces pounded villages throughout the Shomali region. Their objective, presumably, was to obliterate guerrilla strength around the crucial 50-mile stretch of highway leading from Kabul toward the Soviet border, along which the invaders transport their supplies. Meantime, according to Western intelligence reports, Soviet bombers were attacking targets near Herat in the west and around Kandahar in the south. They apparently hope that by demolishing villages they can devastate local agriculture...
...stars may be far simpler than exploring the black holes of human nature. Percy illustrates this best in a slice of imaginative speculation about four astronauts on an 18-year interstellar flight. The crew, three women and a man, practice "serial monogamy" and procreate. The 186,000-mile-per-second speed law is in effect, so nearly two decades in space amount to more than 400 years on earth. The astrofamily returns to find the home planet ruined by old nuclear wars and the survivors barely able to reproduce. But basic physical and spiritual urges persist...
...will carry aloft two more communications satellites, one Canadian, the other Indonesian; that the five-man (oops!) -member crew will be the largest yet launched in any space vehicle; and that the 100-ton craft will glide to a landing for the first time on a new three-mile strip at Florida's Kennedy Space Center rather than on the Western deserts, where there is more room for error...