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...clue to why Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashed into a mountainside, taking 520 lives. President Botha's "manifesto" for South Africa disappoints opponents of apartheid. Iran's rigid theocracy harbors fanaticism and little hope for change. How a U.S. hostage managed to film his Shi'ite captors in southern Lebanon...
Even the fanciest equipment will not afford northern skygazers the view they might have in southern latitudes. For those who want a closer look, travel agencies offer Halley's excursions to such distant sites as Arequipa, Peru; Botswana, Africa; the Amazon; and Sydney, Australia, at prices ranging from $1,400 to $29,000. Several of the tours feature star speakers: a Royal Viking Line cruise with Carl Sagan on March 26 has been sold out for six months. Other tour guides include a top NASA scientist and a physics professor from San Diego State University. "Our cruise," insists Richard Doolittle...
...billed as "Style Wars" and "Tea and Empathy." Nancy Reagan, the polished Southern California socialite, and vivacious Raisa Gorbachev, the uniquely style-conscious Soviet First Lady, were advertised as going coiffure to coiffure in a well-scripted spate of public relations appearances while their husbands went eyeball to eyeball over substance behind closed doors. In fact, while the women generated little real warmth in private discussions, they nevertheless displayed a dignity that transcended the much hyped designer-dress face-off. Pressed by a reporter about style-wars comparisons, Nancy Reagan aptly retorted: "I really think that's a little silly...
...will introduce a minivan, the Entourage. Down the road Hyundai plans to roll out a larger SUV and its first hybrid vehicle. The company is also opening manufacturing plants around the world that should help it penetrate key markets. Hyundai is investing $600 million in a factory in the southern Indian city of Madras. Due to open in 2007, the plant will be Hyundai's second in India. And in May, Hyundai opened its first U.S. factory. The $1.2 billion plant in Montgomery, Ala., will produce 150,000 Sonatas this year and next year will start making the Santa...
...never met anyone who wears the clothes she makes. For nearly two years the 20-year-old rice farmer's daughter has worked at the Chaida Garment Factory in the steamy southern Chinese city of Kaiping, stitching seams on winter jackets for such companies as Timberland. Amid the clatter of sewing machines, surrounded by mountains of down vests headed for the U.S., Liu tries to imagine the people whose wardrobes have given her a job. "They must be very tall and very rich," she muses. "But beyond that, I really can't picture what their lives are like...