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...University report's review of letter-writing pays tribute to Finley's prodigious output, while recognizing that the letter-writing master is a disappearing breed. "One person who every admissions office in the country knew was John Finley, whose letters were famous for their length and eloquence," the report said...
...then there have been six other reputable surveys, the latest just published by the Journal of American History. Hundreds of questions were sent to 1,997 historians by Robert K. Murray and Tim H. Blessing of Pennsylvania State University. Answers from 846 historians, a good return from this cantankerous breed, arrived in time for the first computer deadline, and the emerging data provided not only a fascinating profile of greatness, or lack of it, but an intriguing look at those who set the rankings...
These new headaches demonstrated once again that the shuttle is still very much an experimental vehicle. Even so, NASA could take pride in the debut of Spacelab and the new breed of payload specialists-scientists from outside the regular astronaut corps, including one West German researcher-who managed its heavy load of 72 experiments. The space agency noted that more than 90% of the studies had been completed. If the scientific data transmitted from orbit in just a single burst were lined up as small, text-size electronic symbols, one official calculated, they would extend from the earth...
...breed of Japanese women graduates from leading universities are shunning traditional, largely clerical roles in Japanese companies for foreign firms that acknowledge their ability and offer more pay and promotion hopes. "The educated women of Japan are still an unused resource in the professions," says Owen Erickson, senior vice president and general manager of Bank of America in Tokyo, which hires about 25 female college graduates a year...
Monitoring the experiments is a new breed of scientist-astronauts called payload specialists. On Spacelab's maiden voyage, they are Ulf Merbold, 42, a West German physicist whose specialty is the behavior of materials at low temperatures, and Byron Lichtenberg, 35, a biomedical engineer from M.I.T. and Brown University with a particular interest in solving the problem of motion sickness that has afflicted so many astronauts...