Cubans paddle 230 miles to freedom in ocean crossing
Three exhausted Cubans paddled 230 miles on inner tubes to reach the Florida coast. They spent five days without water, subsisted on raw fish, and began hallucinating before being rescued off Fort Lauderdale by a Coast Guard patrol boat. Names given: Luis Allomma Chappottin Marin, Humberto Rodriguez Valdes, and Carlos Enriques Quintana Orosco.
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Freedom
Luis Allomma Chappottin Marin
Chappottin
Humberto Rodriguez Valdes
Carlos Enriques Quintana Orosco
Fort
Whaling descendant aids humpback in peril near Provincetown
Charles Mayo III, a whale researcher and descendant of New England whalers, leads life-saving efforts for a 40-foot humpback trapped by fishing line off Provincetown. Mayo, 41, director of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, says he seeks to save the whale for the emotional link it provides to his ancestral past.
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Provincetown, Mass
Charles Mayo III
New England
Mayo
Provincetown Center For Coastal Studies
Scientists record unusual pre-explosion burp in supernova
Two astronomers using the 200 inch telescope at Caltech observed a galaxy 30 million light years away produce a novel supernova. The event in NGC 4618 shed its hydrogen and helium before exploding and was much dimmer than typical supernovas.
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Los Angeles
Earth
California
Filippenko
Berkeley
Sargent
Nature
Challenger tests study of sun and ionosphere circles
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP astronauts on the Challenger conducted sun focused astronomy and ionosphere experiments. They circled and fired an electron beam at the PDP satellite to measure radio transmitting ionospheric ripples while 14 instruments gathered data during a six hour test.
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Earth
Karl Heinze
Loren Acton
Heinze
Acton
Roy C. Lester
Gordon Fullerton
PDP
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