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...last week. Following Richard Meier earlier in the week, Renzo Piano, one of the world's foremost architects and the man responsible for the planned revamping of the Harvard University Art Museums, spoke to a packed Piper Auditorium last Thursday. Famous for his work in such major spaces as Houston's Menil Collection, Osaka's Kansai Airport and Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou, Piano's speech attracted so large a crowd that not only was the auditorium packed, but even the secondary broadcast room was standing-room only. People had to be turned away in droves. Perhaps the situation called...
...part of the experiment, Glenn and Dr. Chiaka Mukai, a payload specialist from Japan, spent four nights wired to sensors that monitored breathing, muscle tension, brain waves, oxygen levels and eye and body movement. After their return Saturday, they slept at Johnson Space Center in Houston, still wired to the sensors. They will continue to give blood and urine samples for the next few weeks. Czeisler was still in Houston yesterday according to his secretary, and could not be reached for comment...
EMANCIPATED. DOMINIQUE MOCEANU, 17, Olympic gold-medal gymnast; by a Texas state judge; in Houston. The 1996 champion was declared a legal adult in a settlement with her parents, whom she accused of squandering her earnings. The decision lets her seek a past accounting and make her own future deals...
...chance of that. Right now, it?s still all Glenn, all the time down in Houston. More than a thousand residents packed an airport hangar to cheer the two-time astronaut?s return Saturday; on Wednesday, the city will throw a parade in his honor. And you?d be hard-pressed to find a reporter with space stations on his mind at the Discovery press conference. How did Senator Glenn feel? "Ninety-five or 98 percent back to normal," he said. Does he have a message for the elder generation? "Don?t sit on a couch someplace, that...
WASHINGTON: The GOP would probably rather be in Houston -- but this time around, Philly is the way to go. Reeling from Tuesday's election and intent on broadening their appeal, the Republicans are pitching their 2000 convention tent squarely in traditional Democratic territory -- the northeast. "The first president of the next millennium will be nominated in the cradle of liberty," Republican Party Chairman Jim Nicholson said Thursday...