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Reasonable people may differ about the scientific value of NASA's much delayed INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, and starting this week, you can take a look skyward and judge for yourself. The station was little more than three school-bus-size pods linked together like sausages. Last Thursday, however, the space shuttle Endeavor blasted off with the station's latest--and most dramatic--component, a 240-ft.-long set of solar wings that will gather light from the sun and provide juice to the energy-hungry hardware onboard...
Mass burnings cause the emission of many chemicals that destroy ozone. Large quantities of methyl bromide and other halogen-containing chemicals are pushed skyward in biomass fires. Such fires could be the source of most of the bromide getting to the ozone layer and destroying it. Large quantities of sulfur dioxide are also emitted that can increase acid-rain fallout. The U.N. needs a program to discourage deliberate biomass burning. JAMES A. SINGMASTER III Fremont, Calif...
...Bauer, who once said making pancakes was his hidden talent, sends a doughy orb skyward...
...Incirlik, an isolated Turkish base 444 miles southeast of Istanbul, the Gulf War has never really ended. Most mornings some two dozen American F-15s and F-16s scream skyward, along with E-3 and RC-135 command planes and KC-135 tankers to keep them safely flying and fueled. An hour later, in a delicately choreographed ballet 400 miles east, the warplanes take their final sips of gas before turning south toward Iraq. Their mission: to show the Iraqi military how impotent Saddam is in protecting Iraqi sovereignty--and them. Maybe this will foment rebellion...
...ashes of former New Mexico Governor Tom Bolack were launched skyward with his family's Fourth of July fireworks...