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Loral's ill-fated launch may also have caused collateral damage of a different kind. In the wake of the crash, a committee of Western aerospace experts, headed by a top Loral official, was tapped to investigate. It drew up a preliminary report on specific reasons the Long March may have failed--and faxed it over to the Chinese. This technical feedback, a federal investigation concluded, may have helped China improve the accuracy of its rocket and missile programs. The Defense Department found that Loral and Hughes, another satellite company on the committee, had engaged in a "serious export-control...
Thursday was busy with the final conference for a high school teaching program with which I have been involved. My mom received the crash course tour of Harvard's dining system as we ran to pick up food from Adams and the central kitchens, pushing carts of bagels and juice for the conference through the streets of Harvard Square. I noticed the peculiar role reversal as I gave my mom instructions for setting up rooms, food and materials for the conference, in the way that I had so often heard her organize others, including my siblings and myself. She accepted...
Though Egyptian billionaire MOHAMED AL-FAYED failed to win British citizenship (again) this month, it hasn't impeded his plans to spend eternity in the U.K. Fayed, whose son Dodi died in the car crash that also killed Princess Diana, owns the London department store Harrods. Last week Fayed's spokesman said the Anglophile tycoon would like to have himself mummified after death, then have his coffin placed in a dome at the top of the store. The spokesman also said, hopefully in jest, that Fayed would like to have "a hundred clones of himself made so he can come...
...maintained by volunteers scattered all over the Net. The source code, the usually secret "recipe" that determines how the software works, is published online for anyone to read and improve on. As a result, Linux is amazingly stable. There are stories aplenty of Linux PCs that have been running crash-free for years, without ever being rebooted. Best of all, you can load Linux on an outdated PC or Mac with minimal RAM, and your old machine will zip along like a young jaguar, multiprocessing with the best of them. If you're looking for a cheap...
...Katzenberg, first at Paramount, then at Disney. For two decades they worked in tandem, churning out blockbusters (Aladdin), star-making hits (Sister Act) and plenty of duds (Billy Bathgate). When Eisner wouldn't make Katzenberg his No. 2 after the death of president Frank Wells in a 1994 helicopter crash, the team went down as well...