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...minutes late for the wreath-laying ceremony at the Martyrs' Mausoleum in Rangoon last Sunday. As they waited for his arrival, high-ranking South Korean officials chatted quietly with their Burmese hosts. Suddenly, an earsplitting explosion cracked through the one-story building, blowing the center of the roof skyward. Within seconds, a scene suffused with the orderliness of diplomatic protocol was transformed into bloody chaos: smoking ruins, survivors screaming hysterically, others racing frantically from the building to seek help. The toll of the blast, apparently caused by a bomb hidden in the mausoleum's ceiling: 19 killed...
...southern suburbs. The most encouraging sign came on Thursday, when Beirut International Airport reopened after being shut down for four weeks. As the first incoming plane, a red-and-white Middle East Airlines Boeing 707 from Saudi Arabia, circled over Beirut several times, people in the streets pointed skyward and cheered...
...move the marble stones, some of which weigh as much as twelve tons, Korres plans to use a French-built arch crane with dangling giant forceps. When work begins (perhaps as soon as December), the crane's silhouette will stretch skyward from the Acropolis, dwarfing the monuments. Its first task: setting straight a carved column at the temple's southeast corner, which has tilted precariously since a 1981 earthquake moved its base by more than one inch. When the crane is idle, its upper portions will fold down, out of sight of the residents and visitors...
Ride, 32, a physicist by training from Encino, Calif., seemed almost born to the Brotherhood of the Right Stuff. She said little as the shuttle smoothly climbed skyward, except to take issue kiddingly with Bob Crippen, 45, Challenger's veteran commander, who was making his second shuttle flight. Said she: "He keeps saying there's nothing exciting happening. I'm not sure I'd go along with that...
...points serenely skyward from a ridge dotted with apple orchards, the 84-ft.-wide dish appears to be just another space-age antenna. But last week, the Harvard radio telescope, 30 miles northwest of Boston, became the center of a champagne inaugural and worldwide scientific attention. As colleagues and reporters clustered around him inside the observatory's control room, Harvard Physicist Paul Horowitz tapped a few keys on a computer terminal. A minute or so later, a jumble of jagged lines flickered onto a video monitor. They represented the random squawks and beeps of the universe that had just...