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...baseball world was naught but fantasy. For my fellow undergraduates at Harvard and I have known nothing but repression and fear throughout our formative years. We have been living in the “Time of Bonds,” an era when pitchers cannot openly practice their craft for fear of reprisals from the tyrannical despotism of bat-borne power. It is a power wielded by those hitters who, like the gluttonous suitors of Penelope who prospered in the absence of Odysseus, have grown fat off of poor pitching and enlarged muscles...
...hushed roomful of executives looks on, Luke Skywalker makes a daring decision. Crouched in the cockpit of his spaceship, the hero of the Star Wars saga switches off a computer scanner and aims the craft's laser guns himself. Goof-off time in the boardroom? In fact, that dramatic scene is from a videocassette of the best seller Megatrends, one of a growing number of popular books being used in taped form in management-training programs. The next face on the screen belongs not to Darth Vader but to Author John Naisbitt, who explains the lesson of the space segment...
...craft flying 200 miles above earth may have been the all-American orbiter Challenger, but for the first time ever, Houston had help. As NASA engineers took care of the nuts and bolts of the flight from Texas, a team of 160 flight specialists in the sleepy town of Oberpfaffenhofen, 15 miles southwest of Munich, oversaw the German D-1 Spacelab, stuffed into Challenger's cargo bay and carrying an elaborate array of 76 scientific experiments. Said a proud Hubertus Wanke, head of mission operations at Oberpfaffenhofen: "It's all similar to Houston, but in upper Bavaria...
...margin. Bob Dylan kept pushing it back, bending it around, like some rock-struck jet pilot always testing himself, testing his craft, punching the outside of the envelope. Dylan took rock 'n' roll way up high where the air is thin and the head gets giddy. Rock has never come back. Bob Dylan has never come down...
...researchers stress the still primitive nature of their craft. In the case of Mount St. Helens, one of the most heavily instrumented volcanoes ever, experts predicted many aspects of the 1980 eruption, yet they were caught off guard by both its fury and the extent of the mudflows it generated. And at Nevado del Ruiz, warning signs had abounded since Dec. 22, 1984. At that time a series of earthquakes were detected, followed by 30 minutes of harmonic tremor. Mild tremors continued throughout the spring and summer, and on Sept. 11, ash spewed forth for seven hours, accompanied...