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...broadcast back to Earth the Maoist anthem The East Is Red--but that program suffered a string of disastrous explosions in the mid-1990s. The Shenzhou has flown only four times in unmanned trials, in contrast with the Mercury program, which NASA tested more than a dozen times before Alan Shepard became the first American in space in 1961. All four Shenzhou craft returned from orbit, but not all accomplished their missions. The Shenzhou II is widely believed to have suffered damage from a hard landing during a blizzard two years...
...guided the development of Boeing's last plane, the stakes couldn't be higher. In the early 1990s, Phil Condit was the program manager for the 777 and Alan Mulally was the chief engineer. Now Condit runs the entire company and Mulally is head of commercial airplanes. Over the past three years, Boeing has lurched from one new design to another--only to back off ideas abruptly. One proposal, the sleek and futuristic Sonic Cruiser that Boeing promised would fly faster than other any plane except the Concorde, captured the imagination of the aviation world--but not of the airlines...
...fact that he is a Republican makes his former bohemianism all the more salient. If such a pleasure-loving person were a Democrat, the Republican right would attack him with the venom they reserved for Clinton. Indeed, some Republican scolds like Alan Keyes chastised Schwarzenegger last week for being on the "evil side" in the culture wars. But when left-wing feminists tried the right's anti-Clinton tactics on Arnold--making much of the last-minute flurry of accusations of sexual misconduct--they sounded bitter and not a little hypocritical. In their scolding of the big-grinned Arnold, they...
...smart-asses who come here on occasion say that we will run the Arabs into cantons,” Hertzberg said, referring to Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who also addressed Hillel audiences this fall...
This July, the College approved $100,000 in safety upgrades on the Holyoke Street building in the wake of nightclub disasters in Chicago and Rhode Island. Alan Symonds, technical director of college theater, said those upgrades should be complete by the end of this month...