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...space walk is the latest in a long string of Soviet firsts: the first spacecraft in orbit, the first animal in space (a dog), the first man in space, the first woman in space, the first man to walk in space. And with this latest flight, Savitskaya has tallied yet another: the first woman to return to space. Two years ago, the cosmonaut-researcher conducted experiments in astrophysics, medicine and biotechnology aboard Salyut-7. Again an American was upstaged: Sally Ride was planning to become the first two-time female astronaut when she joined Kathy Sullivan on the shuttle this...
...that began to change in 1980 when the National Radio Astronomy Observatory inaugurated the Very Large Array (VLA), an extraordinary $78.3 million string of 27 radio telescopes set out like giant Dixie cups across 21 miles of the desert of New Mexico. The VLA is one of a kind: the separate signals received by the 27 instruments can be melded into a single seamless picture, providing scientists with huge, highly detailed portraits of the heavens. Pointing the VLA toward the galactic center, Yusef-Zadeh and his Columbia colleague, Don Chance, along with Astronomer Mark Morris of UCLA, mapped...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo. Party-splitting brawls were avoided, and unity was pledged by many orators, some of whom sounded as if they meant it. Colorado Senator Gary Hart promised full support of Mondale, who defeated him in a grueling and bitter primary campaign, and Jackson, after losing a string of floor fights over platform planks, made a point of apologizing to any fellow Democrats who might have been offended by his preconvention stridency. More important, he appealed penitently to the Jews who had been especially disturbed by his previous oratory. Said Jackson: "We must turn from finger pointing...
...blessed country. That's what my choice is about, and that's what Gerry's about." During pauses to let the cheers roll, Mondale could be heard over open mics making some avuncular, old-pro remarks to Ferraro, standing beside him in a bright red dress and simple string of pearls. "What did I tell you about Minnesota?" he asked the New Yorker during a standing ovation. A bit later: "You'll have to get used to this. At the convention, you'll have to smile for 15 minutes...
Meanwhile, Daria has been drawn into the web of intrigue surrounding a string of mysterious fires in the dilapidated buildings that she has just discovered her husband owns. With her new group of friends, the very tenants of the buildings being destroyed. Daria investigates the dark secrets in Ross's other life...