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Plenty of would-be stars spend years angling for -- and just missing -- a national television appearance. For Myra Kristine Palmer, a near-miss with TV fame came very early in life. In fact, she had just been born...
...They generally stayed in Antarctica four or five days. Most boats carry naturalists or other experts, who give lectures, and groups often visit scientific stations. So many boats cruise along the peninsula between November and March that it has been dubbed the "Antarctic Riviera." Chile has opened a hotel near its base. Antarctic activities include hiking, mountain climbing, dogsledding, camping and skiing. A few show-offs have even water-skied on the cold waters...
...most intrusive visitors are those who tramp through penguin rookeries and other wildlife habitats. Going anywhere near certain kinds of seabirds can frighten them enough to disrupt feeding patterns and reproductive behavior. Though warned not to litter, some tourists leave behind film wrappers, water bottles and cigarette butts. And, yes, Antarctica has graffiti -- on the rocks of Elephant Island...
...kennel seemed an odd venue for a watershed event in U.S. military history. But when members of the 988th Military Police Company from Fort Benning, Ga., engaged Panamanian soldiers in a firefight at an attack-dog compound near Panama City, the American platoon was commanded by a woman: Captain Linda L. Bray, 29, of Butner, N.C. Bray, one of 771 Army women who took part in the Panama operation, had added a page to the annals of American warfare: for the first time women, who compose almost 11% of the U.S. armed forces, had engaged hostile troops in modern combat...
Most improbable and intriguing of all, Strasser is being permitted to apply his fluent vision -- joyfully modernist, austere but playful, reasoned, practical, never grim -- to the interiors of huge blue-chip office hives. He recently finished a 1.2 million-sq.-ft., multibuilding IBM outpost near Dallas, and construction has begun in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on a two-block- long office building for a giant entertainment company. "I don't assume a corporation is conservative and conventional," he says. "I don't feel that as soon as they say 'corporate,' you have to do chickenshit work...