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Other questions about group dynamics abound. Among the foremost: Should women be included on a Mars expedition? If so, what about sex? No one likes to talk publicly about that, admits NASA Flight Surgeon Patricia Santy. "There's no reason, even in a highly motivated professional crew, that the same kind of sexual tensions that develop here in offices aren't going to develop in space." Santy believes women should be included in the crew. If they are, she says, there should be at least two -- both for mutual support and to avoid disruptive sexual entanglements aloft. Former Astronaut Michael...
...time away from the campaign trail to conduct a session of his own on Soviet- American relations. Crammed into his corner office at the Massachusetts statehouse was a pride of professors, including Madeleine Albright, Joseph Nye, Robert Murray, Marshall Goldman and Robert Legvold. Also present was Senator Bill Bradley, foremost of the congressional foreign policy mavens Dukakis has come to respect. In front of the Governor was a 50-page briefing book. All seemed set for a dry but dutiful seminar...
There are, however, some very pragmatic and hard-nosed arguments -- in addition to the idealistic and gooey ones -- that it is in America's national interest to base its foreign policy on cooperation among allies, deference to the desires of smaller friends and respect for treaties. The foremost reason: it works, or at least works better in the long run than does the swaggering alternative. Unilateral assertions of U.S. pressure have proved more likely to foster resentment about Yankee imperialism than to promote lasting influence. Nor does Washington always know best: its friends in Latin America have generally proved more...
...vibrant, and frequently violent, images come from an emerging cadre of playwrights who are perhaps the most eagerly cultivated new voices in the American theater. Like blacks a generation ago, Hispanics have become the ethnic group of the moment, both off-Broadway and at many of the nation's foremost regional theaters. From Manhattan's Public Theater through the Milwaukee Repertory Theater to the Los Angeles Theater Center, they are using their new ascendancy to reach main stages and middle-class white audiences...
Watkins called discrimination the "foremost obstacle to progress" in combatting AIDS. "People simply will not come forward to be tested or will not supply names of sexual contacts for notification," he said, "if they feel they will lose their jobs and homes based on an HIV-positive test." The chairman's recommendation: that the President issue an Executive Order extending federal antidiscrimination laws already on the books to include those infected with the AIDS virus. In Congress, conservative lawmakers, who vigorously oppose steps that would confer special rights on homosexuals, the group most directly affected by AIDS, promptly voiced their...