Word: endeavour
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Before nasa's newest shuttle Endeavour finally lifted off last week, maintenance technicians had plenty of troubleshooting to do. The $2 billion ship arrived at the Kennedy Space Center looking pretty enough, but beneath Endeavour's sleek exterior lay more than 2,000 problems, including a defective set of main engines. And wedged among the tangle of dangling wires, hydraulic pipes and contaminated water lines was one moldy Oreo cookie...
...journeyman artist and engraver, studied briefly in Munich, showed his pictures in beer halls as well as in art galleries, and died of kidney failure at the age of 44 without leaving a single recorded comment on his art or, indeed, on anything else, beyond declaring that "I endeavour to make the composition tell a story." But one may be fairly sure that if his ghost saw the Met's catalog, it would utter an Irish oath of bewilderment. It features essays by 22 scholars, all solemnly excogitating on such weighty matters as whether the horseshoes in his pictures...
...Professor Randall Kennedy on the disruption of speeches by South African officials. According to your story, he though such action appropriate because those who invited them "are not authentically curious about what they have to say." The invitation, he claims, "is a political action and not an educational endeavour." When asked whether it would be appropriate to beat or even kill such speakers, Professor Kennedy replied that it was "a close call, something I'd have to think deeply about." Has our deep thinker considered that there are many students who would find abhorrent the appearance on campus...
...Burmah Endeavour is a modern supertanker that can carry 458,000 tons of crude oil, enough to fuel all of Britain for two days. But for the past three years, the great ship has been out of work. It lies at anchor in the port of Southampton, manned only by two security guards who walk its 5 1/2 acres of decks. Meanwhile, 17 more big tankers stand idle in fjords along the coast of Norway. At the port of Fujairah, near the mouth of the Persian Gulf, Harbor Master Roger Turnbull begins each day in his control tower by counting...
...active Black/minority organization at Harvard that has published a respected journal for the past two years: The W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society. Indeed, we are not the only forum for the scholarly work and opinion of minorities. The Afro-American Studies 1985-86 Lecture Series is but one such endeavour among many. We of the Du Bois Society look forward to our Third Annual Colloquium, to be held in late February, and to the publication of the subsequent proceedings. The W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society