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...Astronauts Bill Lenoir and Bob Overmyer experienced nausea and vomiting during the fifth flight of the Columbia last November. Lenoir's distress helped force changes in planned space tasks during the five-day mission. Space sickness, renamed by NASA "space adaptation syndrome" (SAS), was recognized only a decade ago. Says former Astronaut Mike Collins: "We didn't have much of a problem with space sickness as long as we were strapped in Mercury and Gemini. Same for the Russians. It's when we all began floating around in Skylab and the Russians in Salyut that the guys...
...their five-day cruise from Mexico, the Queen and Prince Philip will be resting up not for such ineffable California experiences as sunset over a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway, but for a numbing schedule of dinners and plaque dedications. It is not easy being royal, but they can be expected to remain courteous and resolutely interested in the midst of celebrity crush and media uproar...
Like so many of Margaret Thatcher's actions, her surprise visit last week to the Falkland Islands roused strong emotions at home, abroad and, not least, within herself. On one occasion during the five-day mission to that barren South Atlantic archipelago, the Prime Minister was moved to tears as she honored Britain's fighting men, living and dead, whose victory over an Argentine occupying force had lifted Britain's spirits and Thatcher's own political fortunes. Her supporters cheered the 8,000-mile journey, which began shrouded in secrecy until her rugged Hercules transport plane...
...contraceptive in the U.S. Reason: the Food and Drug Administration fears that not enough is known about the drug's long-term side effects. Last week, at the behest of the Upjohn Co., which developed and markets the drug, a special FDA-appointed panel conducted a five-day hearing to see if Depo-Provera should finally be made available to American women...
...During a five-day visit to Southeast Asia last month, U.S. Attorney General William French Smith discussed the problem with Thai officials. Smith said that Washington was not going to increase this year's quota of 64,000 refugees from Indochina, though he did promise that the U.S. would do its best to accept as many refugees as possible, up to the maximum quota...