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Safman, a 17-year-old resident of a Washington, D.C., suburb, spent two weeks in Cape Canaveral waiting for an experiment she designed to go up with space shuttle Columbia...
Smith lived in a suburb of Houston with his wife and three children, but he was used to pulling up roots and resettling whenever necessary. "He never turned down a challenge and always did whatever the Navy asked him to do," said Florence Noe, an aunt. Nor did he dwell much on the danger of his work. "Everybody looks at flying the shuttle as something dangerous. But it's not," he commented before Challenger's lift-off last week. "It's a good program, and something the country should be proud of." Said his brother Pat: "I hope everybody realizes...
Bonner came to her family's home in the Boston suburb in early December on a three-month medical visa...
...Ninoy moved from mayor to governor to Senator, Cory stayed quietly in the background. The Aquinos' comfortable life in a middle-class Manila suburb was severely disrupted in 1972 when Marcos jailed Ninoy, his most outspoken critic. After Ninoy was released for medical reasons in 1980, the couple moved to Boston, where they lived for three years before Ninoy decided that he must return home to unite the anti-Marcos forces...
...five gunmen carrying walkie-talkies and wearing masks and bulletproof vests burst into the room. While one of the intruders held his family hostage, Guerrero was whisked away in a car to the Brink's main warehouse where he worked, some 15 miles away in the northwest Paris suburb of Colombes...