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...agency declared, it will finally launch its long-delayed unmanned Galileo project to Jupiter, a 2.3 billion-mile mission that is expected to last eight years. NASA also awarded four contracts for the construction of the long-planned space station that will serve as the nation's first permanent outpost in space...
Instead, Ride recommends that the U.S. begin by establishing a lunar outpost that could serve as a research laboratory and enable scientists to exploit the moon's resources. "While exploring the moon," she argues, "we would learn to live and work on a hostile world beyond earth." Mars would logically come next. Such a stepwise approach might also spare resources for other projects. One that Ride endorses: a "mission to planet earth" that would use orbiting space platforms to study the global atmosphere...
Bailyn uses the Register as a pair of binoculars to focus on the origins and destinations of specific people--like James Metcalf Jr., a 27-year-old Methodist farmer who left his native Hawnby, Scotland in 1772 to settle in a remote outpost of Nova Scotia...
...consummately terrifying story. It is about a couple on their way to California to start the proverbial new life, when their car breaks down. The conflict begins when the man decides to hitchhike to the nearest town and leaves his wife and son with the car at an outpost in the middle of the desert. Some very spooky cowboy types hang out at the outpost. The story is about betrayal, but it is almost Gothic in the way it renders the stillness of the blank desert and the pink-cheeked yokels grotesque and terrifying...
Typical of the seesaw battle has been the fight for Barikot, a garrison just across the border from the Pakistani town of Arandu. Barikot is a major base of Soviet operations to block rebel supplies from abroad. Since the mujahedin first attacked the northeastern frontier outpost six years ago, the Soviets have broken the siege twice, only to see the rebels re-establish it. Robert Schultheis, an American free-lance writer, recently made his third trip into Afghanistan since the war began -- and his second for TIME -- and observed the fighting around Barikot. His report...