Word: steven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sally Ride, 36, is set to explore the academic frontier. Her new mission: science fellow at the Center for International - Security and Arms Control, a think tank at Stanford University. Ride's switch to the private sector, effective Aug. 15, comes in the wake of her divorce from Astronaut Steven Hawley and reports that the ambitious spacewoman had become restless at NASA. "It was going to be a long time until she flew again," confides a colleague, "and she wasn't particularly turned on even by that." Speaking to reporters on the day of the announcement, Ride called space flight...
Angered by being "treated very badly," Debbie contacted Manhattan Lawyer Steven Harris. The attorney established that Martin, who had little money, was covered by a homeowner's insurance policy, making it possible to collect on a judgment. At his deposition, Martin admitted that he had not told Debbie about his infection. This March, Debbie and Martin agreed to a settlement of $119,052, to be paid by the insurance company...
CONVICTED. Steven Bowman, 27, and Darren Norman, 20; of assault, after being charged with slashing the face of Model Marla Hanson, 25, last June at the behest of her former landlord, Makeup Artist Steven Roth, 28, who was convicted of assault last December; in New York City. Roth, upset by Hanson's refusal to date him and by her demand that he return her $850 apartment deposit, had promised Bowman and Norman an apartment as payment for their crime. All three men face up to 15 years in prison...
...impossible to flourish on his own and hang in with the gang. "I felt," he says, "a more urgent necessity pulling me. Like, 'Hey, it's time to find out if you got something else to contribute here on this planet.' " Men Without Women, his first Little Steven album, released in 1982, was a New York song cycle about hard life on the city streets. The songs were fervent, and the Disciples of Soul blasted behind Van Zandt like a garage band concertizing on top of a pizza oven. Voice of America, released in 1984, was a startling change...
...that lives on the bark and leaves of many plants. The bacterium produces a protein that serves as a seed for the formation of ice crystals when the temperature drops below 32 degrees F. By snipping the seed-making gene from the DNA of the microbe, Berkeley Plant Pathologists Steven Lindow and Nickolas Panopoulos created a mutant form of P. syringae that does not promote frost. They call their new microbe "ice- minus." In the laboratory, leaves coated with the microbes have briefly withstood temperatures as low as 23 degrees...