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...create the illusion of change" in the theater, the center spent $50,000 for color-coordinated seats, curtains, and capeting for restoring the marble and wood carving, Lodge said. Thick black paint on the large mahogany-trimmed windows in the lobby was removed, he said, adding that the mahogany cost $25 million...
...claimed that Iranian ground troops had pushed the Iraqis back on the northern fringes of the 500-mile invasion front. The week's grim work left hundreds dead on both sides. Houses, schools and mosques lay in ruins. Vital oil pipelines were shattered and gnarled, while plumes of thick black smoke rose over burning refineries...
...planet is radiating more heat back into space than it receives from the distant sun. What is the source of this mysterious energy? Perhaps the most tantalizing question concerns Titan, Saturn's largest satellite (even bigger than Mercury) and the only moon in the solar system with a thick atmosphere. Could it harbor organic molecules, the precursors of life...
...most prestigious breeding programs has been established on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, where a British group under the honorary directorship of Biologist-Author Gerald Durrell has been breeding everything from rare primates (lemurs and marmosets) to endangered birds (the brown-eared pheasant and thick-billed parrot) and reptiles (the red-footed tortoise and Jamaican...
...correspondents will have election handbooks as thick as telephone directories briefing them on what to watch in each state, but they can also put questions to the computer, which has been programmed with a vast library of CBS research. Some have taken to the new futuristic consoles more readily than others: Dan Rather, reportedly, revels in them, spending idle hours punching up new information. Cronkite seems a bit wary, though he says, "It sure beats all that paper piling up all night long...