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...Yale defeated Northeastern by only three seats," Voldins explained. "When a crew has a good race, even if it loses, it can be a big confidence booster. Those kinds of races can makes a boat feel a lot stronger than it really...
...irrefutable medical evidence on secondhand smoke," says Mark Green, New York City public advocate and a longtime supporter of antismoking measures, "has been the booster rocket launching the antismoking movement into orbit." Notes an EPA official: "We had no real sense of how big this report was going to be. But it has become the major catalyst for the reforms we're seeing all over the country...
That epiphany proved to be exactly the confidence-booster Harvard needed...
...Robbins, 75, who looked spry and acute in rehearsal. "But Misha wanted to try something, and I want to work with smaller forces now. I started listening to the music. It began to open up." Musing on his work with Baryshnikov, he adds, "It's given me a real booster. I can't think of anyone better to work with. If I think it's too dark, he lightens it -- and vice versa. A great, great artist...
While it might be a good idea to put human space flight on hold while the booster problem is re-examined, that isn't likely to happen. Men went into space not so much for the sake of science but because of cold-war competitiveness. Although the space race is long gone, an equally compelling foreign policy consideration has replaced it: the need to engage the Russians in international alliances and keep their technology headed in peaceful directions. That was one of the President's main motives in offering them $1 billion in return for their help on the space...