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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of the highly inclined plane of the satellite's orbit (about 65° to the equator), Cosmos 1402 could crash almost anywhere, from as far north as Greenland to the southernmost tip of South America. That orbital path precluded any rescue attempt by the new U.S. space shuttle Challenger; even if it could be launched in time, it would be unable to achieve so tilted an orbit. As to just when Cosmos 1402 might strike, one U.S. intelligence officer said: "We'll be able to make some hard calculations about the time and place of landing when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Cosmos 1402 Is Out of Control | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...great opportunity to revivify the whole scene and provoke once again the comment in the New Yorker 'the best in the business.' All it takes is two qualities supposedly often present at Harvard: independent thinking and the courage to act upon it if it points away from the current path of the majority. Let's get a little Harvard into the Harvard Band! Jack Barnaby '32 Squash Coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Band | 1/5/1983 | See Source »

Despite bitter attacks-from those ostensibly supportive of Israel, it is people with the strength and vision of a Jacob Timer man who can help guide Israel onto a path of peaceful co-existence with its neighbors and a restoration of equity and general health within Israeli society. As long as Timer man stays in Israel, and his detractors behind their desks in America, maybe there is some hope. Toba Spitzer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review Miscued | 12/14/1982 | See Source »

...Gandhi, with whom he would like to negotiate a no-war pact, and in his efforts to keep lines of communications open to the nettlesome Khomeini regime in Tehran. Zia will need all the political acumen he can muster if he is to negotiate successfully the narrow, obstacle-ridden path he has chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Turnabout | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...Marince had a bad accident when he was 17 years old. He was riding in a car that skidded over a patch of ice and was thrown out the" passenger door and into the path of an oncoming truck. He woke up two days later in Pittsburgh's Allegheny General Hospital, a tube in his throat and a machine pumping air down his trachea. Rob had lost the use of his arms and legs, and his lungs were paralyzed as well. The doctors said that he would spend his life on his back, unable to perform the simplest tasks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Power to the Disabled | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

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