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...about what has been happening around the world: it's a question of major assumptions of reality and different conceptions of the presidency. It's incredible that two candidates can assert such marked differences on questions of historical fact. It's as if one were from Venus and one were from Mars. On Lebanon, Mondale's version was that the causes were mistaken U.S. policy, the procedures amounted to presidential bungling, and the effect was to embolden the terrorists. Reagan answered that the causes were mainly Lebanese, there was no lapse in procedures, and the effect...
Galileo, however, seemed to court his own difficulties. His discoveries with the newly invented telescope-the mountains of the moon, the phases of Venus, the moons of Jupiter-made him known throughout Europe. But he was a flawed hero...
...evidence comes from a remarkable automated observatory called Pioneer Venus. Since late in 1978 the 810-lb. machine has been circling Venus, probing it with a battery of instruments, including radar. The devices, said Pioneer Venus scientists meeting at NASA's Ames Research Center near Mountain View, Calif, have revealed that under Venus' clouds is a landscape almost as dramatic as the earth's: sprawling plateaus, mountains as high as Everest and great chasms similar to terrestrial rift valleys...
When it dipped ever so slightly over certain areas of Venus, the scientists concluded that it was flying over denser regions that exerted a greater gravitational tug on the ship.) In addition, radar reconnaissance showed material radiating from Beta that looked uncannily like recent lava flows...
...researchers are elated about their long-distance snooping, but not simply for scholarly reasons. They note that a planet like Venus provides a real-life laboratory for understanding such essential questions as global weather patterns and the spread of acid rain, whose most corrosive ingredient is sulfur dioxide. Venus is also valuable for studying the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which increases global temperatures. Says the U.S. Geological Survey's Harold Masursky of the latest Venus findings: "These are not just nice things to know. They may be vital to our survival...