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...control of the space station supposed to transfer from the Russians to the U.S. during the mission? Actually, operational control shifts from Mission Control-Moscow to Mission Control-Houston whenever a shuttle launches from Cape Canaveral. This time, though, the shift may be permanent. Since the first segments were launched in 1998, the U.S. components have had to depend on Russian modules for power and navigation. With Destiny in place, that will change. Electricity generated by 240-foot solar paneled "wings" installed in December will now power most of the station. And Destiny carries the computers that will drive four...
Mothers who try to control the closet rarely agree with their daughters on what that difference is. Mindful of her own teenage years, spent in halters and hot pants, Sandy Swenson struggles to find tasteful outfits that pass the cool bar for her daughter Kate, 14. But the Houston mother admits she prefers at times to retreat rather than fight over wardrobe. Shavetta McWhorter, a mother of two girls in Canton, Ga., takes a harder line. "I basically tell Asa, 12, 'You have two choices: you can dress like a young lady, or you can dress like a hoochie...
...went to interview for a job as head coach and athletic director at Texas Southern University in Houston. The position offered a big step up in pay and prestige, but Paige also wanted a faculty assignment. Granville Sawyer, 81, then president of Texas Southern, recalls, "I was convinced by the end of our conversation that this was a great mind and a great educational leader in the making...
...Paige had been reared in a family of die-hard Democrats, in a county with "so few Republicans that the whole group would almost fit into a van," according to the editor of the local paper. But while living in Houston in the 1970s, he became active in the Republican Party. Why? Paige once told the Dallas Morning News that in Mississippi, "the guys that were lynching us were Democrats." He campaigned for the elder George Bush when he ran in the 1980 Republican presidential primaries, and Paige describes the Bush family as the "cream of the earth...
...Friends emphasize that in setting education policy, Paige's only ideology is what works. When the typically polarizing debate of how to teach reading arose in Houston, Paige heard out proponents of both camps--"whole language" and phonics--and allowed his district to adopt a combination of the two. "He's quite masterly at bringing all kinds of different perspectives to the table and choosing the best one, no matter where or whom it comes from," says Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of Great City Schools, an urban-schools coalition that recognized Paige in 1999 with a national...