Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, October 9, 1994 TAG: 9410120037
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A6 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. LENGTH: Medium
Space shuttle Endeavour retraced its orbital steps Saturday, following the same path taken 24 hours earlier to produce the most detailed radar maps ever made of Earth.
The 3-D images will reveal changes in terrain as small as a half-inch and may help scientists predict earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Until Saturday, a shuttle had never repeated its orbital path from one day to the next. Endeavour's pilots periodically fired their steering jets to put the shuttle on a course duplicating all 16 orbits of the previous day; the same thing was planned for today.
- Associated Press
Book on Thomas nominee for prize
NEW YORK - A book about Clarence Thomas' ascension to the U.S. Supreme Court that has not yet been published or sent to reviewers is a finalist for this year's National Book Award.
``Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas'' was nominated in the nonfiction category. The book, by Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, reporters for The Wall Street Journal, is to be published by Houghton Mifflin on Nov. 3.
In an editorial on Thursday, The Washington Times suggested that the National Book Award judges and the publisher had conspired to nominate ``Strange Justice'' for political purposes, saying Mayer and Abramson wrote a scathing review in The New Yorker of David Brock's defense of Thomas in the book ``The Real Anita Hill.''
- Associated Press
Briefly ...
Robert MacNeil will announce this week that he's retiring from ``The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour'' on PBS in 1995, The New York Post and The Washington Times reported Saturday.
by CNB