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While investigators probed the possibility of human error, the search for evidence of the technical failure that caused the Challenger explosion continued off Cape Canaveral. A flotilla of four undersea craft and ten surface ships had located and photographed parts of the right booster, scattered on the ocean floor under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Questions Get Tougher | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

ENIAC was decommissioned in 1955, having churned out military and scientific calculations for nearly a decade. Today its cabinet-size modules are scattered among several museums and institu tions. Four remain at the Moore School, gathering dust and cobwebs in a foyer off the old building's main hallway. Nearby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Birthday Party for Eniac | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Repons is a good illustration. Musically and technologically, it is Boulez's most ambitious, unorthodox undertaking to date. In a large gymnasium (the Los Angeles performances were at the John Wooden Center on the UCLA campus), a centrally located small orchestra of 24 is surrounded by six soloists scattered around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pierre Boulez: The Soul of a New Machine | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

The small, borrowed apartment in Jerusalem where Anatoli and Avital Shcharansky are staying bears a striking resemblance to the cluttered flats in the Soviet Union where dissidents once congregated. Folders of correspondence and masses of newspaper clippings lie scattered about--some of the detritus of Avital's ceaseless nine-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visit with a Survivor | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

This military assistance is no assurance that the Contras will be successful. The Contra army of terrified peasants and ex-Somocista national guardsmen has created economic havoc for the Sandinistas but are far from causing their removal. For the last six years under the auspices of the CIA and the...

Author: By Melissa W. Wright, | Title: Give Contadora a Chance | 2/22/1986 | See Source »

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