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Although light reaching the planet from the sun is only a quarter as bright as it was near Saturn, scientists expect Voyager's cameras (as well as its other instruments) to reveal considerably more detail as the spacecraft draws closer to Uranus and finally swoops to within 66,000 miles of its surface on Jan. 24. Voyager's odyssey will not end there. Accelerated to 45,000 m.p.h. and rerouted by Uranian gravity, it will soar still farther away from the sun, encounter Neptune in 1989, then head out of the solar system on an endless journey to the stars...
That kind of attention to detail helped auto-parts maker Borg-Warner, which discovered that the Japanese believe a product must look good even if the customer will never see it. Borg-Warner, a manufacturing conglomerate, makes a five-speed transmission used in Nissan's popular 280Z and 300ZX sports cars. While the driver sees only the stick shift, Nissan insisted that the whole transmission must shine. "We ran into the Japanese fetish for appearance," says Thomas Hague, the firm's Asian area director. "It's an emotional thing with them." After Borg-Warner polished up its act, Nissan...
...research center in New York City, released the results of a 37-country study. Its findings: the U.S. leads nearly all other developed nations in its incidence of pregnancy among girls ages 15 through 19. As a point of comparison, AGI investigators looked at five other Western countries in detail: Sweden, Holland, France, Canada and Britain (see chart). Though American adolescents were no more sexually active than their counterparts in these countries, they were found to be many times as likely to become pregnant. And while black teenagers in the U.S. have a higher pregnancy rate than whites, whites alone...
...laid," has been drubbed by several professional relief outfits. There is much rivalry among charitable institutions, and some of the pros, smarting from Geldof s high visibility and hyperactivity, have had harsh words. By their protective reckoning, Geldof and his Aid outfit are good at grabbing attention, slow on detail work and chary of bailing out other agencies. "I'm not an accountant," huffs Geldof, who is nevertheless adept at running down stats, from the average number of berries constituting the daily diet of a starving Sudanese (eight) to the number of Live Aid and Band Aid trucks ferrying supplies...
...airline's team leaders, about 20 at a time, in sessions that can run up to eight hours. All the while, Burr gulps coffee from a porcelain mug. "They think my meetings are too long," he says. "I like that. It means we go into detail." Burr first listens to their problems and ideas, but then he asks for the sky and the clouds. Says Burr: "This is a very driven place...