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That's right, earthlings. In Supergirl, which is due out this summer, we learn that the Man of Steel has a cousin, Kara, who fled the doomed city of Argo, a floating chip off their old home planet, Krypton, and landed in Midvale, Ill., where she assumed the identity of a Midwestern teenager. Got that? Anyway, with her muscle-bound relative away on an intergalactic mission, Kara, played by Newcomer Helen Slater, 20, is kept busy battling megabaddies like the evil witch Selena, portrayed by Faye Dunaway, 43. To prepare for her flying scenes, Slater talked with Christopher Reeve...
Your article on the flight of the spacecraft Challenger [Feb. 13] gives me hope. We live on a medium-size planet attached to an ordinary star at the edge of a run-of-the-mill galaxy. Space technology is our key to a greater universe. Earth, as is amply demonstrated by the tragic events that are occurring in the world today, does not have room enough. Only space can unite and save mankind...
...Venus, the second planet from the sun (Mercury is closest), shares significant characteristics with its neighbor, earth. It is nearly the same size and density, and by astronomy's vast measures, is a similar distance from the sun (67 million miles vs. 93 million for the earth). Now it appears that Venus resembles the earth in still another way. Scientists announced last week that Venus seems to be pockmarked with giant volcanoes, at least one of which erupted as recently as five years...
...researchers are elated about their long-distance snooping, but not simply for scholarly reasons. They note that a planet like Venus provides a real-life laboratory for understanding such essential questions as global weather patterns and the spread of acid rain, whose most corrosive ingredient is sulfur dioxide. Venus is also valuable for studying the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which increases global temperatures. Says the U.S. Geological Survey's Harold Masursky of the latest Venus findings: "These are not just nice things to know. They may be vital to our survival...
...linkage, Linkage is the policy of recalling treaties because of "bad" Soviet behavior. This policy is based on the ridiculous belief that treaties are rewards to the Soviet Union for good behavior. Bilateral disarmament is beneficial to both nations and is necessary for the survival of our planet. Andrew Popell '87 Michael Magoon Freshman, U.C. Berkeley