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...captain Gia Barresi (catcher) and Lisa Rowning (third baseman), and first baseman Trisha Brown are all four-year starters, while shortstop Sharon Hayes and second baseman Mary Baldauf are putting in their third years as first-string infielders...
...rain- swollen thunderheads and went out of control. A range safety officer hit the destruct button, and the rocket exploded along with its payload, an $83 million communications satellite. For NASA, struggling to recover from the loss of the Challenger shuttle 14 months ago, the aborted flight broke a string of seven successful launches since September. The cause was not immediately known, although a leading suspect was lightning...
...month presidency. "Police and military action, not social and economic reforms, is the immediate solution to terrorist acts," she told an audience at the Philippine Military Academy. Earlier that day she had pledged to "smite the foe on the left and the right." Said Aquino: "I want a string of honorable military victories." Her speech represented a dramatic shift in tactics aimed at ending both the 18-year Communist insurgency and coup threats by military officers loyal to former President Ferdinand Marcos...
Roger Goldberger was relaxing at home after work when the phone rang. As soon as he answered, an unfamiliar voice blurted out a string of obscenities, then the caller hung up. Goldberger, a department-store manager in Harrisburg, Pa., calmly pressed *69 on his telephone, triggering an automatic return of the call. A phone rang; the same male voice answered. "You just called my house, and I don't appreciate what you said!" shouted Goldberger. The stunned teenager mumbled an apology and then asked, "How did you know it was me?" "It was easy," Goldberger replied. "My telephone is smarter...
...history resides not only in the grandeur of its structure but in its details: Hungarian-born Physicist Leo Szilard stepping off a London curb in 1933 and being struck by the shattering inspiration of sustained chain reaction; Cambridge's Ernest Rutherford angling for the secrets of the universe with string and red sealing wax; Pierre Curie's hands, swollen by prolonged exposure to radium; the flat feet that kept Albert Einstein out of the army; Nobel Prizewinner Enrico Fermi arriving for an appointment at the U.S. Navy Department and overhearing the desk officer tell his admiral, "There...