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Sancton and Chirac even share an affinity for New Orleans jazz. Sancton is an accomplished clarinetist with eight albums to his credit, the latest of which, Louisiana Fairy Tale, will be released this spring on the GHB label. He and Chriac traded jazz stories on a private jet during the presidential campaign. Among them: "[Chirac] was recollecting his penniless student days in New Orleans in the '50s and how one evening at a jazz club, a musician befriended him and bought him dinner. I think it makes a nice historical footnote that one night at Galatoire's, the future President...
...California to be put into storage. What engineers think happened is that the vibrations of the transcontinental trip may have worn out some of the lubricants that should have helped the antenna to open." Because of the delay, the spacecraft will only transmit hundreds of pictures back to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory rather than the thousands originally scheduled. Even at the slower speeds, scientists there still say that Galileo should meet 70 percent of its original goal...
...lights, for example, can be used to induce an artificial jet lag effect in a subject. Researchers can vary the duration and timing of the light and dark periods, as well as the intensity of each light exposure...
Blind people, says Jayne, are recruited nationally and are often interested more specifically in contributing to research. "They stay on their own time zone and won't have jet lag at all--only what we might induce," says Jayne...
...most of the 24,000 members rejected a requirement that they begin paying part of their health-care insurance premiums to remain in the most popular health plan. This strike, which began October 6, is the second longest in the 79-year history of the world's largest commercial jet maker. In 1948, another machinist strike lasted 140 days...