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Theme parks? No: dream parks. Fish never looked more adorably anthropomorphic than they do performing at the three Sea World parks in Orlando, San Diego, and Aurora, Ohio. Appalachian cabins never gleamed so spiffily as at Dolly Parton's new Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Country music rarely sounded so all-fired wholesome as it does at Nashville's Opryland. No city zoo ever boasted rides like the Congo River Rapids, the Stanleyville Falls flume or the vertigo-inducing Scorpion--all to be found at Busch Gardens in Tampa. Early Christians never found accommodations as plush as the ones...
...dazzling performance as Aurora in a 1949 Sadler's Wells production of Sleeping Beauty confirmed her status as the world's most renowned ballerina. Last week at Miami's Dade County Auditorium, audiences were once again clapping for Margot Fonteyn in Sleeping Beauty. This time, however, Dame Margot, 66, had joined the cast of the 19th century ballet in the nondancing mime role of the stately Queen. The Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet production is currently touring North and South America, and Fonteyn agreed to do two Miami performances because it was not far from her home in Panama...
...Aurora Levins-Morales, a Puerto Rican activist and poet, read from her works about sexual and racial alienation last night at Radcliffe's Agassiz House...
...week, Physicist Don Lind could not contain his wonder. "The streaks of light we're seeing are really spectacular stuff," he radioed to Mission Control in Houston. The shuttle, about 200 miles above the ocean south of New Zealand, was passing through the top of a green-and-pink aurora--a huge, glowing band of light generated by charged solar particles hitting the atmosphere. It was the first time that the shuttle had actually flown through an aurora...
...increase over last year--are for classified or "black" programs deemed too sensitive by the Pentagon to be publicly divulged. The secrecy has set off the inevitable guessing game over such code names as Seek Axle, Have Flag, Cactus Plant and Theme Castle. Some experts believe that Aurora is the budget heading for "stealth" technology, which one day could make a plane or cruise missile invisible to enemy radar. Aurora's price tag: $80 million in 1986 and a hefty $2.3 billion...