FROM ANOTHER WORLD TO OURS After 35 years on the air, Another World, NBC's longest-running soap opera, has been canceled. You may not know anything about Bay City, but a number of important plot developments and future stars premiered there, some more welcome than others:
--It was the first television program to allude to an illegal abortion (1964)
--It was the first soap opera to expand from half an hour to an hour (1975)
--It's where Ray Liotta got his start (1978)
--It was the first soap opera to expand from an hour to an hour and a half (1979)
--It's...