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...superb sets of large wooden blocks (ranging from $35 to $200) are crafted to be the foundation not only of manual skill but of imaginative construction that older kids can carry forward into Fisher-Price's excellent $5-to-$38 Construx sets. These will yield an armada from outer space that & might handily be reinforced by some vehicle from the cartoon-linked but still lively MASK series, or by the formidable Giant "vertical climbing system," a rumbling series of interlocking rough-roaders (scant assembly required) that can make it over cartons and well up walls...
...almost ten hours of talks with Gorbachev, Prime Minister Gandhi reiterated his own opposition to the militarization of outer space. The two leaders signed a joint declaration calling for an immediate ban on nuclear- weapons testing, with the goal of achieving an international ban on all nuclear and space-based weapons by the year 2000. The Delhi Declaration, as it was called, implied that Moscow would extend its own unilateral nuclear test ban, which had been set to expire on Jan. 1. The moratorium was first imposed after an appeal from India. The Soviets also announced that they were giving...
...plot could be torn from yesterday's headlines: SEA SHEPHERD FROM OUTER SPACE. Imagine that the environmental activists who recently sank two Icelandic whaling vessels were the rulers of a 23rd century planet, and that they had sent to earth a probe with signals that could be answered only by humpback whales -- a species that had been hunted to extinction by blubber- lusting 20th century man. If the whales don't talk back, the earth blows up. So the Star Trek crew must become time travelers. They must boomerang their stolen Klingon warship around the sun, land in San Francisco...
...Smith Museum, Padi was also reunitedwith his outer coffin, which was lost in the late19th century. The coffin ultimately turned up atthe Smith Museum where researchers recentlydiscovered that it belonged to the MGH mummy...
Between the inner and outer stone walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, stand the barracks that housed the emperor's army for five centuries. Since the conversion of the royal family's palace into a public site, however, museum employees, not soldiers live here. For eight years, Wu Hung, now a tutor in the Fine Arts department, lived between these walls as a curator for the Palace Museum...