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Other experiments on ST57 demand no more than a throw of a switch. Six are contained in a joint U.S.-West German package called OSTA-2 (after NASA'S old Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications), which will test such technologies as glass forming, alloy making and crystal growing in weightlessness. Two other experiments are repeat efforts aimed at producing superpure pharmaceuticals and precisely shaped latex particles for use in medical tasks like blood-flow measurement...
President Bok's statements make it crystal clear that when anyone is protected too much from the realities of life their skin thin their voice becomes shrill, and their roots wither, President Bok should retire as Harvard President and go to work for a year as a dishwasher or a cab driver, or some other occupation where you come into contact with the rest of humanity. Malcolm W. Berkowitz...
...carrier based in Los Angeles, intends to chart a different course. When its twice-daily flights between Los Angeles and New York City begin in July, passengers will live high as they fly high. Amid a lavish art deco decór, they will sip Taittinger champagne from fine crystal and dine on caviar and fresh Maine lobster. They will have plenty of room to stretch and stroll. Regent Air's 727 jets will carry a maximum of 36 travelers, in contrast to up to 130 on other airlines' 727 flights. Four private compartments on board will have...
With a bullhorn as his paintbrush and the crystal-blue waters of Miami's Biscayne Bay his canvas, Christo, 47, was in Conceptual Artist Nirvana last week as he darted about by speedboat, yelling instructions to 400 helpers who had signed on for his latest production. His plan was to envelop eleven garbage-strewn islands between Miami and Miami Beach with some 6 million sq. ft. of pink polypropylene. Christo's $3.2 million "irresponsible, irrational, poetic gesture," as he calls it, is being financed largely by the sale of sketches, drawings and models of the work. As with...
...will ever satisfactorily explain the Holocaust, though debate on the subject will continue into the foreseeable future. Yet some characteristics of the Nazi era are already crystal clear. That the death camps existed and were the greatest evil yet known to man is beyond debate. The creeping attempts at revisionism on this matter will only serve to revive the crime against humanity that we thought had died with Hitler...