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...documentary series Eyes on the Prize, it had just survived a violent clash with state troopers outside Selma, Ala. The confrontation climaxed a remarkable decade of civil rights activity that followed the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation. Eyes on the Prize II, an eight-week continuation of that story, plunges us into a much different world. Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and other firebrands have emerged to challenge the movement's old guard and question its tactics. If Eyes on the Prize recounted the inspiring opening act of the civil rights struggle, the follow-up series presents a more complex...
From the opening curtain on, exoticism was in the air. Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, embarking on a four-city, eight-week U.S. tour, chose to lead off its engagement at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week with Le Corsaire, a full-length ballet that very few Americans have ever seen. The kind of diversion that appealed to 19th century audiences in Paris or St. Petersburg, Le Corsaire now seems a genuine novelty, and, like the Kirov itself, it signaled that something fresh and curious can still be found in the post- glasnost era of big tours and cultural exchanges...
Although fewer crimes are reported during the summer because there are fewer people around the campus, the police official said that Summer School students are particularly vulnerable toburglary, because they are not educated on crimeprevention during their eight-week stay inCambridge...
...entrepreneurs is Chris Majer, 36, president of SportsMind, Inc., based in Seattle. As the corporate name indicates, Majer originally worked mainly on athletic training, though his current clients include not only AT&T but also the U.S. Army. Majer started his military efforts in 1982 with an eight-week, $50,000 training program at Fort Hood in Texas. Traditional calisthenics were replaced by a holistic stretching-warm-up-aerobics-cool-down routine. Soldiers practiced visualizing their combat tasks. The results in training test scores were apparently so good that the Army expanded SportsMind's assignment into a yearlong...
Thirteen times during their eight-week stay, a specially outfitted DC-8 took off from the Presidente Ibanez Airport, twelve miles northeast of Punta Arenas. Often the 40-odd scientists and support crew listed for a given flight had to leave the hotel soon after midnight to prepare the plane and its research instruments. Once airborne, the DC-8 would bank south toward Antarctica, 1,000 miles away, fighting vicious winds before settling into a twelve-hour round-trip flight at altitudes of up to 40,000 ft. Along the way, the instruments continuously collected data on atmospheric gases, airborne...