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...Cola's setbacks have extended even to outer space. Coke and Pepsi were aboard the latest flight of the space shuttle Challenger, but at a press briefing last week the astronauts said that neither soft drink was satisfying. Reason: the spacecraft has no refrigerator. Said Mission Commander Gordon Fullerton: "Warm cola is not on anybody's list of favorite things." --By Barbara Rudolph. Reported by Leslie Cauley/Atlanta, with other bureaus
...other appearances, both women acquitted themselves well. Raisa Gorbachev remained unflustered when heckled loudly by a Soviet émigré outside the Geneva city hall. Nancy Reagan momentarily lost her train of thought while conversing with addicts at a drug treatment center but recovered and launched into a warm pep talk. In a joint appearance at a Red Cross ceremony, Nancy Reagan carefully read a prepared speech; Raisa Gorbachev had largely memorized hers, impressing the audience with the resulting sincere eye contact. At a second tea party, this one given by an increasingly confident Raisa Gorbachev at the Soviet mission...
...game of croquet in a tiny school yard ringed by a wire fence that keeps out stray cattle but not, alas, bull snakes (Brown killed three of them earlier this year). At Lennep, science lab may be watching Alka-Seltzer tablets dissolve at varying speeds in glasses of cold, warm and hot water. Socially, too, youngsters nurtured in the gentle intimacy of a one roomer may tend at first to be loners, and lonely, when tossed into a big high school...
Citing evidence from bore samples taken in southern Florida, Petuch says that, after impact, coral began to grow on the raised rim of the crater, forming a circular atoll-like formation. Later, when the sea level rose, the atoll gradually elongated into an ellipse as the coral (which seeks warm waters) migrated toward the shallows north of the original crater. Some 1.8 million years ago, the atoll contained an inland sea continually replenished by ocean waters. But as the rising coral walls gradually closed out the ocean, newly deposited sediments' piled up in the forming lagoon. The inland sea shrank...
...just a year ago, and it soon had a two- to four-week waiting list for peak-hour reservations. She has a special talent for lamb and duck dishes. Other outstanding offerings include corn cakes with caviar and crème fraîche, chimney-smoked lobster, quail with beet sauce, warm apple timbale with caramel sauce and chocolate bread pudding...