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...Sharon Christa McAuliffe, to comet- related experiments. The Solar Max satellite, brought back to life l8 months ago by a shuttle repair crew and now performing its normal duty of monitoring the sun, will examine Halley's off and on for about 60 days. Pioneer 12, in orbit around Venus, will watch Halley's when it ducks behind the sun. The U.S. is also a major backer of the International Halley Watch (IHW), a vast effort to coordinate the megabytes of comet information that will be generated both by the probes and at ground-based observatories around the world. According...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Greeting Halley's Comet | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

Although cholesterol is popularly regarded as an enemy, the body needs it to manufacture new cell membranes, steroid hormones and bile acids. Made primarily in the liver and also obtained through food, cholesterol travels through the bloodstream in round bundles of fat and protein called lipoproteins. Like Venus's-flytraps, vacant LDL receptors snare the passing packets. The lipoproteins are rapidly broken down in the cell, and the cholesterol is freed for use, while the receptor returns to the membrane, ready for prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Honors for Seven Achievers | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

Daughter of Venus: New Ehrlich, 539 Tremont St., Boston Center for the Arts, near Copley Plaza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: October 10-16 | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

Sorry, MacKinnon, but don't expect Cambridge to give up its Venus de Milo's and D.H. Lawrence novels without a fight...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Cambridge and MacKinnon's Folly | 10/9/1985 | See Source »

...into a simulation of the Incredible Hulk. She clearly has the most daunting set of muscles in the Las Vegas body builders' competition that is the focus of the movie. But she loses because the judges think she looks too "masculine." Bev is not, that is to say, the Venus de Milo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Body Beautiful: Pumping Ironies | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

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