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...sandy-beige concrete behemoth topped by a gargantuan dome and a copper cross that gleams in the relentless sun. Equally remarkable, the great basilica is built in post-Renaissance style and has two long arms formed by 128 massive Doric columns that reach out from the porch to envelop a 7.4-acre plaza paved with granite and marble. Has St. Peter's Basilica been magically transported from Rome to the heart of Africa? No, this is the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, the administrative capital of the Ivory Coast...
Early-warning cells constantly monitor the bloodstream and tissues for signs of the enemy. With the gusto of Pac-Man, they gobble up anything that is foreign to the body. They envelop dust particles, pollutants, microorganisms and even the debris of battle: remnants of invaders and infected or damaged body cells. Other early warners direct the production of unique killer cells, each designed to attack and destroy a particular type of intruder. Some of the killers, alerted to body cells that have become cancerous, may annihilate these...
...another every thrust of the way. Japan's two probes, Sakigake (Pioneer) and Suisei (Comet), between them will study the solar wind and examine the hydrogen cloud surrounding the comet. The Soviet Union's Vega 1 and Vega 2 will analyze the abundant dust motes and charged gases that envelop the comet's nucleus. Most remarkable of all, data and pictures from the Vega twins will enable European scientists to chart Halley's course precisely enough to allow their probe, Giotto, to come within about 300 miles of the nucleus, snapping thousands of photographs as it swoops by. Says Kunio...
...much by public authorities as it is by Lilco's beleaguered management. The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has yet to license the plant for operation. Locally, officials of Long Island's Suffolk County are convinced that a serious accident at the plant would cause nuclear fallout to envelop nearby residents before they could flee. Said Deputy Suffolk County Executive Frank Jones: "Shoreham should not and cannot go on line. It should be abandoned." Some county officials now argue that Shoreham should be converted to a coal-burning plant...
...second worst thing that can happen to a people is to be conquered. The worst is to live through the ordeal that follows: to submit. The suicides, the alcoholism, the mists of despair that today envelop many reservations all seem legacies of a colonial past that won't go away. "Winter in the blood" is the way James Welch, the Montana Blackfeet novelist, describes the consequences--a freezing up of the Indian psyche in the face of daily deprivations of the spirit. "I was," he writes, "as distant from myself as the hawk from the moon...