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...goes according to plan, the competition winners, each weighing 500 kg (1,100 lbs.) or less, will be launched by rocket into Earth orbit. There, high above the atmosphere, each will unfurl a giant sail consisting of wispy plastic coated with a film of aluminum. Positioned by radio signals from the ground, the sails will catch the gentle push of sunlight...
...obscure B.I.E. The European Communities' Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana, an Italian, has demanded full environmental studies, and says triumphantly that doubts about the Venice site are setting in: "It will finish in the paper basket." But outgoing Mayor Casellati is still worried. "I'm going off to sail in the lagoon," he says. "Before they destroy...
Charles Glass, an American journalist with Lebanese roots, watched the U.S. Navy off Beirut in 1983 and concluded that, like the Genoese and Pisan fleets aiding the Crusaders eight centuries earlier, it would soon sail home in ignorance and frustration. Lebanon and neighboring Syria, Israel, Jordan and Iraq, he argues, are "tribes with flags" rather than nations. Try as big powers might to control them with armies, navies and imported ideologies, the ties of "family, village, tribe and sect" have been much tougher...
...impoverished and embittered. While it has been at peace since most Vietnamese troops left Cambodia last September, there is great discontent over living conditions and an annual per capita income of less than $200, far below that of South Vietnam in 1975. Last year 75,000 boat people set sail for the refugee camps of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, attempting to escape not so much an oppressive regime as grinding poverty. Free-market economic reforms begun in 1986 have sparked a revival in the cities, but they have yet to improve living standards in the countryside, where...
...nature of matter requires brash risk takers because it is a venture into the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. Explains Roy Schwitters, director of the new SSC project: "The physics we do is like a voyage of discovery. You can imagine you're Columbus. We're setting sail to who knows where -- a new world, we hope...