Word: tucson
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...victim was Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, a rising actress who co-starred in the CBS series My Sister Sam and is featured in the current movie Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. Arrested for her murder in Tucson the next day was Robert John Bardo, 19, a former fast-food restaurant worker. Authorities describe him as "an obsessive fan of Miss Schaeffer...
...underfunded and unappreciated, poor cousins to those who observe distant stars and galaxies in the night skies and who consider the sun boring. Then why do solar astronomers persist? "We are driven to an understanding of the sun," says Robert Howard, an astronomer at the National Solar Observatory in Tucson. "It is an enormous lab. It is a Rosetta stone for the study of the stars. With other stars, all you have is a pinpoint of light. By understanding more about the sun, we can learn more about the distant stars...
...American officials are involved in more than 1,000 cases around the world, either seeking the return of suspects to the U.S. or responding to the requests of other nations. The U.S., for example, is expected to deport Hector Burgueno Fragoso to Mexico. He was found last week in Tucson, and is a prime suspect in the drug-related torture and slaying of twelve people just across the border. The extradition process is usually governed by individual treaties between countries, each with its own special provisions. The U.S. alone has signed agreements with more than 100 nations, though not with...
Asked whether he would run again for president,Babbitt said, "I want to kind of just settle intothe landscape and be a private citizen for awhile." Since his withdrawal from the 1988 race,Babbitt has practiced at a Tucson, Ariz., lawfirm...
...former Quincy House resident, Kirshner received his doctorate in astronomy from Cal Tech and performed his post-doctorate work at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson. Kirshner then worked at the University of Michigan as a professor of astronomy from 1976-1985, until he "received the call" to work at Harvard, he says...