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...earlier trip, at ease among his Iron Curtain allies, Turner visited Soviet Georgia and went climbing and hunting in the distant Caucasus. He shot a mountain goat; its stuffed head is decorating his hotel suite. So far, this is Turner Broadcasting's only tangible trophy. In a unified show of indifference, except for the gala opening ceremony, Muscovites have matched American television audiences, empty seat for measly rating point. Once Turner hoped to make $20 million or $30 million on his inaugural games, but now he expects to lose $10 million or $15 million. "Moscow's just not a great...
...four golden days and gaudy nights, she was the still point of a turning, kaleidoscopic world. Immovable, she gazed upon the revelry with her forthright, rather stern expression. While not exactly a wallflower at her own birthday party, she appeared slightly aloof, distant. What's the big fuss? she might have been thinking. The question is understandable: after 100 years there is little the old girl has not seen before. But as an immigrant herself, she is perhaps even more sensitive to the curious ways of her adopted country, silently indulgent of good old American exuberance, excess and, yes, glitz...
...legerdemain, if not hypocrisy, in Reagan's professed personal values. He preaches productivity and rugged individualism, but has always been something less than a workaholic. He preaches the sanctity of family, but is the only President to have been divorced. His relations with his children seem to have been distant and somewhat troubled. He allies himself with religious Fundamentalists for political advantage, but rarely goes to church. Such inconsistencies are human enough. They point a little, however, toward a window onto the uglier side of Reaganism, if not Reagan, the side where some old American meannesses dwell--religious hatreds, fanaticism...
...commission contends that, beyond the sheer accumulation of new knowledge, exotic types of manufacturing can be done only in the conditions of space, the moon and Mars, and that useful organic materials can be recovered from these surfaces. While at first people, living in enclosed "biospheres," would explore the distant bodies and set up factories there, many of these operations would later be controlled from earth. The sciences of robotics and artificial intelligence, in particular, must be accelerated to make all of this possible...
While there is no shortage of commercial satellites in space--off which signals for TV, telephone and even printing plants can be bounced for instant arrival at distant points--the cost of launching replacements is rising because of the U.S.'s launch failures. A few U.S. companies have shifted from the shuttle to Europe's Ariane system, operated by the French from launch pads in French Guiana. Arianespace has raised its prices by nearly one-third, to $35 million a launch, and has at least 29 orders on its books, worth some $1.2 billion. But the consortium has only eight...