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...space shuttle Columbia streaks around the planet during its fourth successful flight, scientists and engineers at the nearby Center for Astrophysics (CFA) are anxiously looking several years into the future, when the reusable spacecraft is expected to operate for scientific purposes...
Although another smooth ascension by the shuttle this week indicates a giant step forward for American technology, experts at the CFA say that nation's current commitment to space science remains unclear...
...sense, the NCAA's compromise was its only alternative and the decision to freeze out the smaller schools kept the organization intact. On Monday, the NCAA temporarily won the television battle, as the CFA broke its agreement with NBC. For now the CFA has been sufficiently pacified by the move to restructure Division 1-A, and will adhere to contracts negotiated by the NCAA...
...NCAA had taken a hard line with the CFA, and the college football powers had gone through with their threat to act independently of the parent organization, the NCAA would have lost any remaining control over the CFA in all areas, including recruiting and academic standards. By making the compromise the NCAA has retained jurisdiction over its most frequent offenders...
...another sense, by giving in to the CFA, the NCAA has compromised its principles, which in the past have been to reward those who adhered to their standards, academic and otherwise, and to punish those...