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...days after the attack, the police arrested David Rice, 27, who was located on a tip. He was also photographed using Charles Goldmark's bank card by a bank-teller camera. Rice, an unemployed steelworker with a history of mental troubles and a record of two arrests for indecent exposure, had reportedly become fascinated with anti-Communism and anti-Semitism. Police found stacks of material on Communism and Judaism, as well as information on the Goldmark family, in the apartment where he was staying. Prosecutor William Downing said Rice seems to have attacked the Goldmarks in the belief that they...
...remaining problems of the new theory will be solved in five years or 50. "String theory has a very rich and complicated structure that we don't understand much about," says Witten. "But enough beautiful things have been discovered that we're pretty sure we've just found the tip of the iceberg." --By Natalie Angier...
...colonial times, British steamship passengers knew Aden, at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula, as a free port on the edge of a vast desert. In late 1967, after four years of civil strife, the moonscape known as Aden and the Protectorate of South Arabia was granted its independence by the British government. In time it became known as the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or simply South Yemen, to distinguish it from the Yemen Arab Republic to the north. The only Arab country that explicitly calls itself Marxist, South Yemen (pop. 2 million) forged close ties with...
...instant later the tip of the booster pivoted into the external fuel tank. The ensuing explosion rocked but did not obliterate the shuttle. "The orbiter itself seemed to float, very briefly, above the fireball of exploding hydrogen and oxygen," said one member of the shuttle inquiry panel. He was reminded of the way a bubble survives a cascade over Niagara Falls, "so fragile, yet with all that wild energy around it." Says a National Transportation Safety Board investigator: "The crew compartment was pressurized and sealed tight and welded into a kind of cocoon or bubble that may have suffered relatively...
...last year by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Irish counterpart Garret Fitz-Gerald to give Catholics more of a voice in the affairs of Northern Ireland. The aid proposal allied two politicians who share Irish ancestry but rarely see eye to eye: Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "As you know, the President and I have had our differences," said O'Neill. "But we have no differences on the need to end the violence in Northern Ireland." The package sailed through the House without a glitch, and is expected to win approval in the Senate, where...