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...void, Voyager 2 had closed to within 46 million miles of Uranus, its next target. The spacecraft's early shots of the mysterious planet, which is four times as large as the earth, were transmitted across 1.8 billion miles of space to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. They depicted Uranus as a fuzzy blue-green ball, showed its five known moons and barely discerned the outermost of its dark rings...
...national program that prepares minority students for admissions to elite schools. He attended the Brentwood School, a private school on Sunset Boulevard, where he was elected head prefect—student body president. He was also a Ron Brown scholar, a Riordan scholar, and first violin in the Pasadena Youth Orchestra...
...crisp night early this month, Astronomers Stephen Edberg and Charles Morris, both 33, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., drove up a rocky slope on Mount Waterman, 25 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Scanning the moonless heavens with his binoculars, Morris sighted a faint light source. Then he located the same diffuse blob with his naked eyes. Meanwhile, Edberg sketched the position of the dim light and compared his drawing with the magnified view of the object provided by his binoculars. Sure enough, there it was. The two men had made the first unaided sighting of Halley...
...falling into the hands of Russians, who might have imprisoned them in distant camps from which they might never return. Now the U.S.'s enemies will certainly think twice before surrendering, choosing instead to fight to the death while taking with them as many Americans as possible. Richard Hornby Pasadena, California, U.S. The Cost of Iraq's Elections Some observers think the triumph of the Iraqi elections was not heralded as it should have been here in the U.S. or in Europe [Feb. 14]. People who think like that just don't get it. Were the American people asked...
...well to get water or a generator to get electricity. Must you own a car (or two or three) to drive? "You can join a mobility plan, like you join a cell-phone plan," says Dan Sturges, a transportation researcher for WestStart, a nonprofit based in Pasadena, Calif. "It is self-service, on-demand, pay as you go. And you get different vehicles for different needs...