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...what lies unseen beneath the thick Venusian shroud that continues to fascinate scientists. Said Stanford Ra dar Astronomer H. Taylor Howard...
...Defense Department has been described as the most difficult beat in town," says Washington Correspondent Joseph Kane, 37, who did much of the reporting for this week's cover story. "The Pentagon can easily mask embarrassment in the shroud of national security. Moreover, with greater speed and efficiency than any other department, it seems to be able to spread the word amongst its 25,000 employees to clam up tight when something touchy captures a reporter's eye." In the eleven months that Kane has been covering Defense, there have been numerous sensitive issues for him to investigate...
...centerpiece is Princess Tu Wan's funeral shroud. Found in 1968 in a Han dynasty tomb in Man-Ch'eng, less than 100 miles from Peking, it has already become an object of legend-the Chinese counterpart (at least in Western eyes) to Tutankhamon's gold mask. This is partly due to its extraordinary substance and workmanship: a complete body-armor of 2,156 slips of green and mutton-fat jade, each no bigger than a matchbook cover, intricately sewn and bound together with gold wire. Its archaeological interest is unique: ancient Chinese texts mentioned jade burial...
...time Skylab reached orbit, NASA controllers were sure that it was in trouble. As the 85-ton spacecraft began circling the earth, it jettisoned its protective shroud, moved its telescope mount into place and unfolded the four windmill-like solar wings that sit above it. But indications were that the remaining solar wing on the Orbital Workshop could not swing out more than a few degrees from the ship and was thus not able to unfold its light-gathering panels. That was bad news indeed. It meant that Skylab was deprived of more than half its electrical power. Even...
...shroud of estrangement from three of his grown children that had clouded Picasso's last years also marred his death. For reasons never entirely clear, Maya, Picasso's daughter by his longtime mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, and Claude and Paloma, his children by Françoise Gilot, had been prevented from seeing their father in recent years. Last week the same sad situation prevailed. Indeed, this time police were on hand to turn away Marie-Therese and other old friends who came to pay their respects...