Edgewood High School, El Corral, 1996, World Beat 7

Description:	n™ in space .comeIcomrades in space after thehistoric docking of the U.S.space shuttle Atlantis andRussias Mir space station onJune 29. Astronaut RobertGibson (in red) greetscosmonaut Vladimir Dezhurov.In June, volcanic eruptions give birth to a babyisland. A new member of the Tonga Islandsemerges near New Zealand, 900 feet high and140 feet wide.Buyers rush to stores for thenew computer operatingsystem Windows 95, spurred byMicrosoft Corp.s $700-millionpublicity barrage and thepromise of a friendlier interface.The movie Apollo 13 opens inthe summer after filmingmany of its scenes inside NASAszero gravity plane, whichmimics the weightlessnessastronauts experience in space bydiving into a 23-second freefall.A. Tannenbaum, SygmaflashAfter a decade-long search,scientists isolate what may bethe most important cancer-related gene. The defectivegene known as ATM isassociated with cancers ofthe breast, colon, lung,stomach, pancreas and skin,and may be carried by twomillion Americans.Astronomers using the HubbleSpace Telescope observe newmoons orbiting the planetSaturn, adding at least 2moons and possibly 4 to \|p^Saturns previously knowntotal of 18.A team of French and Britishexplorers believe they havefound an ancient breed of horsepreviously unknown toscientists. In November, thefour-foot high horse with atriangular head, whichresembles the vanished horsesof European Stone Agedrawings, is named Riwochefor its home region in Tibet.October satellite photographsshow the recent rapiddeterioration of the earthsozone layer above Antarctica.Pollutants produced mostly bythe U.S. cause the hole inthe atmospheres protectivelayer to increase to the sizeof Europe.In November, Visa introduces acash-storage card thateliminates a pocketful of loosechange. A chip in the plastic cardtracks the amount of availablecash, which is accessed with areader at the place of purchase.The card can be taken to thebank and reloaded.Now virtual reality comes in ahandy travel size with Nintendoslatest, Virtual Boy, a portable 3-Dvideo-game system withstereophonic sound.New research shows that the meat-eatingTyrannosaurus rex did not loom upright, butstalked along lower to the ground. The discoveryis reflected in the reopened exhibits of the fameddinosaur halls of New Yorks American Museumof Natural History after three years of redesign.
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Collection:	Edgewood High School

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