"Tethered Satellites" Another idea brewing: satellites on strings, 

 attached to space stations or shuttles, to supply energy for activities 

 and conduct tests of hard-to-reach parts of the upper atmosphere. (SAO) 

 "Balloon Astronomy" A lot of valuable information is still coming to 

 scientists via mankind's oldest flying machine: balloons, with astron- 

 omer Giovanni Fazio. (SAO) 



"The Rising of the New Moon" Art of the Tabwa people of Central Africa 

 reflects ancient tradition and effects of European colonial influence. 

 Dr. Allen Roberts, guest curator of exhibition, and Smithsonian ethnomus- 

 icologist Kazadi wa Mukuna explore the cosmology of the Tabwa. (MAf a) 

 "Garden Potteries and Official Kilns" Oriental ceremony and traditions 

 revealed in exhibition of clan-sponsored ceramic art of 17,18,19c Japan. 

 (FGA) 



"The Biological Revolution" Advances in genetic engineering bring research- 

 ers closer and closer to unlocking secrets of infectious disease. This 

 technology is also expanding agricultural possibilities, extracting miner- 

 als from rocks and showing promise of host of other applications. From 

 MAH and National Institutes of Health, a look at the dawning age of recom- 

 binanant DNA; and a seminar on risks and rewards of biotechnology. (MAH/RAP) 

 "Cataclysmic Predicting" Scientists are continually devising ways to make 

 long-term predictions of pending natural disasters, expecially earthquakes 

 and volcanic eruptions. (MNH/USGS) 



"Lunar Leftovers" Working with NASA, NASM is documenting every piece of 

 man-made material that is now on the moon for the sake of future historians 

 and archeologists. (NASM) 



"Go Well My Child" Photographs from South Africa in the 1940 's reveal 

 land of stark contrasts in exhibition of work by Constance Stuart Larrabee 

 who remembers the people and words that inspired the photographs. (MAf a) 

 "Paths to Taos and Santa Fe" Works of Ernest Blumenschein, Andrew Das- 

 burg, Georgia O'Keeffe and other leading artists of New Mexico in early 

 decades of 20c explored in exhibition. (NMAA) 



"Persian Treasure" Story of an international treasure hunt. Buried in 

 history, recently rediscovered, the Henri Vever collection of Persian 

 paintings and manuscripts is acquired by the Smithsonian. (AMSG) 

 "First Life" New permanent highlight of fossil hall features world's 

 oldest fossils — 3.5 billion-year-old algae from tidal flats of Western 

 Australia. (MNH) 



"On Human Origins" Scientists and researchers discuss human fossils and 

 the ecological environments of early man. (MNH/RAP) 



"Today's Earth Explorers" Four modern-day explorers recount their adven- 

 tures: Robert Ballard of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, leader of 

 exhibition that found the Titanic; maritime historian Tim Severin, who 

 sails reconstructions of ancient ships; Polar explorer Wally Herbert, 

 first to complete a surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean; and geologist 

 Farouk El Baz, who explores the Sahara desert in search of causes and 

 solutions to drought. (RAP) 



"Private Lives of Public Figures" Portraits of famous figures from 19 

 and 20c U. S. reveal relationship between home and heaven in domestic 

 life of period. (NPG) 



"Reaching Rural America" 90 years ago Rural Free Delivery first brought 

 mail service to America's farmlands. With the mail came improved roads, 

 rising farm values and the mail-order industry. RFD exhibition. (MAH) 



