Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lids blew off the academic pressure cooker Saturday afternoon as hundreds of rafters and sun-bathers abandoned their books to experience the 13th annual Adams House Raft Race, between the Anderson and Weeks Bridges...
...other half of Mr. Hyde is the all-too-human Dr. Jekyll. Even the devil wants to win, but the extreme types of female figure do not seem to want anything at all. Sirens eat men because that is what Sirens do....One may as well ask why the sun shines...
...done so for somewhat different reasons. And while the astronomers using the space telescope will hardly reject any astronomical knowledge of the influences of the stars on human affairs and terrestrial events some interesting idea circulating among astronomers at the present time states that a companion star to the Sun indirectly causes mass extinctions on this planet every '26 million years and thus has some potential for affecting human affairs, it is safe to say that their methods are somewhat different than those of the astrologers...
Trailing streaks of vaporized gas, with the dawn light glinting on its white thermal coating, space shuttle Challenger swooped over the sun-baked mountains of California's Mojave Desert late last week for a perfect, centerline landing. Indeed, the touchdown was what shuttle pilots approvingly call a wow WONG (weight on wheels, weight on nose gear). As the 98-ton orbiter rolled to a stop on the seven-mile-long, hard-baked desert runway at Edwards Air Force Base, mission control radioed a heartfelt "Welcome back...
NASA'S carefully detailed script for the mission was showy but simple. Its highlight was to be a free-floating walk in space to retrieve the ailing Solar Maximum Mission satellite (Solar Max). Sent aloft to monitor the sun's activity, Max broke down three years ago, after only ten months in orbit. Challenger's mission last week was to stop the rotation of Max, use the spacecraft's 50-ft. remote-controlled arm to lift the satellite into the ship's cargo bay, and set it back in orbit after repairs were made...