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...breed of bishops also has a strong sense of collegiality and a willingness to follow leadership regardless of rank. Bernardin and Roach, despite their relative youth, probably have more influence among their fellow prelates these days than do the Cardinals as a group Other emerging leaders in the hierarchy include Archbishops James Mickey of Washington, 62; John May of St. Louis, 60; and Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, 55. All these men were advocates of a nuclear freeze even before the Bernardin committee issued the text of the pastoral letter. Krol, the leading figure among the older hierarchs, is staunchly...
...year-old Hoffman, who received a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Harvard in 1971, is believed to be the only one of the 79 U.S. astronauts with a Harvard background. Selected in 1978 as a mission specialist for the shuttle program. Hoffman belongs to a new breed of space scientist--a generation of astronauts quite distinct from the toughened test pilots who grabbed the world's attention during the pioneering Mercury. Gemini and Apollo programs...
Earl MacLaren, a 34-year-old Black Jamaican who has already earned an MBA and worked for the Exson Corp. said that many corporate firms seek "bright-eyed types who have never worked before, in whom they can breed a certain loyalty with library work for three or four years...
...speedy rescue was the first real-life test of a new breed of satellites called SARSATS (for search and rescue satellites) that will be circling the planet in years to come. Carrying special receivers tuned to standard international distress frequencies, these electronic watchdogs will be able to locate troubled craft equipped with inexpensive beacons almost anywhere on earth. Beaming their information back to the ground through a network of dish-shaped antennas, they should ensure prompt rescues of, say, a junk in the South China Sea or a yachtsman rounding the Horn singlehanded...
...breed of entrepreneurs has sprung up along the river to make the crossings easier. At El Paso, Manuel Banuelos Rubio carries people over the border on his back for a few pesos a ride. He has found that some people try three or four times before they eventually outwit agents. Mexicans who are arrested in the U.S. are given the choice of either returning home or facing trial. Almost all choose to go back and then simply cross again and again, until they finally make...