Word: crack-up
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...born in violence, blasted away from Earth by a collision with a planet-like object at least as big as Mars. To test this theory, a research team from Tokyo University and the University of Colorado, Boulder, developed a computer program that would simulate such a cosmic crack-up and let the scientists watch it play out. As the investigators predicted, the planet--roughly half the size of Earth--was annihilated by the collision, surrounding Earth with a Saturnesque ring of rubble that coalesced into a sphere. "We expected this," says Robin Canup, a Colorado research associate involved...
...officials said that ground controllers must share some of the blame with cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin. That's something of a relief for the two spacemen, who earlier this week were fingered by Valery Ryumin, coordinator of the NASA-Mir mission, as the sole culprits in the crack...
...transition--some of us got an education. If we were lucky, we had teachers--Monroe Engel, Justin Kaplan, Gail Porter and Peter Stansky in my case--who shaped our sensibilities forever. But the Vietnam war also exposed the fallibility of America's institutions, and to witness close-up the crack-up of Harvard, the alma mater of the American establishment that created the quagmire, was a harrowing education in itself...
...weapon is the much-talked-about "train wreck"--the shutdown of government operations that could occur if Congress and the President fail to agree on 13 new spending bills by Oct. 1, the first year's installment toward balancing the budget. But even if both sides can avoid that crack-up, which they probably will, the Republicans have started threatening a far bigger disaster: unless the President signs on to the G.O.P. schedule for balancing the budget, the Republicans are threatening to allow the U.S. to default on its debts, with all the ensuing market chaos it would create...
...numbers move on a daily basis. Clinton's improved grade for foreign policy rests partly upon a European trip marked by still-to- be-honored pledges by Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons and by Boris Yeltsin to continue reform. A face-off with North Korea or a crack-up in Russia could renew doubts about his capabilities abroad...