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Finally, there were the billions of signals sent between the doomed shuttle and NASA computers at Cape Canaveral's Launch Control and in Houston's Mission Control before and during the 73 seconds of its flight. The shuttle contained an extraordinary array of monitoring devices (sensors to detect pressures, temperatures, fuel flow, and so on), which reported their findings thousands of times a second. This flow of information, or telemetry, was so constant and so enormous that a lot of it was not sent either to the shuttle cockpit or to the consoles at Launch and Mission controls. Instead...
WASHINGTON -- President Reagan yesterday sent Congress a "hard choices" $994 billion budget for fiscal 1987 that would meet targets of the nation's new budget-balancing law through deep cuts in domestic programs, including student aid, and auctioning an array of federal assets...
...mannequins. On the top floor, some 18th century costumes move in almost antic procession on mannequins molded like silhouettes in some three-dimensional shadow play. Below, on the 19th century floor, a woman dresses for the opera in a ravishing gown by Charles Frederick Worth; across the gallery, an array of simple cottons and linens arranged as if for a Sunday outing at a park creates an effortless paradigm of everyday elegance...
...time that Spence left in question the reputation of Safran and Harvard's center, one would have expected the report to agressively attack a wide array of concerns raised within the University and the Middle East studies community in the wake of the disclosures. Spence's report should also have prepared for the future health of the center by making clear that the University will not stand for activities that violate is critical standards of academic freedom. That the report did neither of these things bodes ill for the future credibility of the center, Safran, and Harvard as a whole...
More than 2,200 children's tapes are now on the market, and the inventory is expanding at a breakneck pace. While the vast majority are rereleases of popular movies or TV shows, a small but growing array of original fare is being produced. Much of it is aimed at preschool-age children, who are largely ignored by mass-audience TV. The publishers of Golden Books have begun releasing video versions of their children's stories on 30-minute cassettes. Toys-R-Us, the nationwide toy chain, is now selling the Geoffrey Alphabet Video, which features National Geographic animal footage...