Word: crews
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...sweepingly ambitious, often frenetic and sometimes messy task. The same could be said, on a smaller scale, of the journalistic task of reporting on such a company start-up. To assemble this week's cover story on the new Hollywood studio DreamWorks SKG, Time fielded a gifted crew to keep pace with the vision and entrepreneurial energy of DreamWorks' Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen--our own "dream team...
...THAGARD HAD GONE into space four times before, but this mission was like none of his past adventures. Instead of preparing for launch on the balmy shores of Cape Canaveral, the Florida native faced the 18[degrees]F chill of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. When he chatted with crew mates, he spoke the language not of Neil Armstrong but of Yuri Gagarin. And when he tried to follow the American astronauts' ritual of eating a piece of cake before launch, the Russian flight doctors said nyet. Instead, Thagard and his fellow crew members, cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov...
...from the European Space Agency, Canada and Japan, intend to build an international space station, the $40 billion Alpha. The elaborate station is to be assembled in orbit, and the purpose of the joint shuttle-Mir missions is to develop techniques that will enable spacewalkers to become a construction crew. Said Thagard: "Mir is a test bed, a proving ground, a place for us to work out all the bugs and kinks...
After San Diego, the heavyweight crew will face its toughest individual competitions on April 15 against Princeton and on April 29 against archrival Yale...
With the spring crew season rapidly approaching, the Radcliffe women are not concerned with anyone's shadow, but rather with whom they will leave in their wake...