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Until now, Matthews, which was essentially gutted and refitted, has undergone the most dramatic transformation. Gone is the dry wall surrounding the staircases--which hid a metal rail from the 1920s that has been uncovered, repainted and extended upward. Gone is the abstract wood sculpture from the 1960s. Gone are the rats (or so hope administrators...
...even with the best possible staff, NASA has a problem it never faced in the free-spending 1960s. Nowadays, every new mission has to be sold to a skeptical and tightfisted Congress. The agency has found that legislators -- and the aerospace contractors who lobby them -- prefer big, complex projects that promise spectacular scientific returns. These also carry the greatest risk, but NASA has understandably played down the chance of failure. Perhaps it's time for a more sophisticated approach: the men and women who run the nation's space program could take a lesson from the politicians and learn...
...Thomas family reflect the failure of a nation whose oil wealth and industrious people once promised to make it black Africa's first world power. Decades of misrule by the military has wrecked the country, which is sliding into the worst crisis since the civil war of the 1960s claimed 1 million lives. Much of the nation's wealth has been squandered through lavish government spending whose main effect is to create new opportunities for kickbacks. Food has grown so expensive that even a university lecturer who earns 10 times the average annual wage of $219 says his children have...
...period in which the U.S. space program was all but stalled. The current fleet of American launch vehicles -- including the shuttle that balked on launch in mid-August and the Titan IV launcher that exploded in midair 11 days before that -- were built from blueprints drawn in the 1960s and '70s, a lifetime ago in terms of research into materials, semiconductors and computer design...
McCaw is itself the product of a series of acquisitions. The company grew out of a string of cable-television businesses that was put together in the 1960s by J. Elroy McCaw. After their father's sudden death in 1969, Craig and his brothers built a cable empire that they finally sold in 1987 to Jack Kent Cooke for $755 million. The McCaws had switched their focus to cellular, becoming initial bidders for cellular-telephone licenses after the Federal Communications Commission opened up that business to competition in the early 1980s. McCaw's big break came in 1986, when...