William C. Keel

I M ' l.i-JI,FOCAL POINTWhence Came Life?Scientists now generally accept that life arose on Earth early in its history The initial step was to produce organic building blocks, which in turn combined to form ever more complex structures that ultimately became self-replicating. But how did the early...

FOCAL POINTCooperation in Space: The Real WorldWE'VE BEEN HEARING a lot about international cooperation in space. Carl Sagan and Mikhail Gorbachev have urged joint American-Soviet flights to Mars. Others are calling on all spacefaring nations to band together for a "mission to planet Earth" to...

Space Telescope: Problems and ProgressFor THOSE involved with NASA's Space Telescope, June 15th was a study in contrasts. On the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, hundreds of astronomers gathered at a gala dedication of the new science institute that will become the focus...