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JOAN FITZ-GERALD (D) District 6 (Denver suburbs--Aurora; Lakewood...
BORN: July 25, 1934, Aurora EDUCATION: Wheaton College, B.S., 1956; U of Illinois, M.D., 1960 FAMILY: Wife, Fran; two children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY SERVICE: None OCCUPATION: Physician; Public Health Service officer POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 387B Schmale Road, Carol Stream...
...these new satellites, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, has taken movies of hot gas streaming into space from a magnetic belt girdling the sun. And the Polar Satellite, so-called because it passes over the North Pole, recently snapped the clearest pictures ever seen of the aurora borealis, the shimmering curtains of light that are the visible fallout from space storms...
...trapped to form the Van Allen radiation belts that surround the earth. Others spiral down the magnetic field lines that project from the North and South poles. Energy unleashed by this disturbance excites atoms of nitrogen and oxygen, which in turn emit pulses of colored light. The result: an aurora...
Fortunately, the casting of Larissa Ponomarenko as Princess Aurora proved a bit more appropriate. One can easily envision Ponomarenko as a bubbly, vivacious 16-year-old once she begins fluttering across stage with a quirky elegance unmatched by anyone else in the production...