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...knowing yet: an entire winter of record-shattering cold, let alone a single week, might be a meaningless blip in the overall scheme of long-term climate trends. In fact, last week's cold wave was caused by a phenomenon that is by no means rare. The jet stream, a stratospheric wind that governs the movement of air over North America, dipped temporarily south of its usual course. As it did so, the stream pulled along a vast high-pressure system from Siberia and the Arctic Ocean...
...burgeoning bureaucracy, slashing the number of U.S. managers on the space-station project from 1,300 to 330 and laying plans to reduce shuttle operating costs by 25% over the next three years. He also wants smaller, cheaper and more efficient spacecraft. For example, Goldin has asked NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop a deep- space mission to Pluto for no more than $150 million, barely one third the cost of the Voyager probes to the outer planets...
...shrunk and adapted to serve both science and industry. Take the Pathfinder probe. Costing a reasonable $150 million, this ; robotic land rover will parachute to the surface of Mars in 1997 and roam around sampling the planet's atmosphere and geology. Says Larry Dumas, deputy director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, where Pathfinder is being developed: "You're getting back to a scale of spacecraft that we really haven't seen since the early days of the space program." And the rover technology has already been copied by industry for use in places -- like hazardous-waste spill...
...million villa on touristy Ocean Drive in South Beach. "It was really love at first sight," he says. At the dinner hour one evening, Maguy Le Coze, co-owner of Miami's chic Brasserie Le Coze, was recounting tales of European friends who are investing in Miami, including a jet-set residential club on South Beach. "I don't know if the Americans believe in Miami," muses the French-born Maguy, "but the foreigners do. By the time the Americans wake up, perhaps it will be too late." Multiethnic Miami, tomorrow's business capital of the Americas, may well have...
...seams economically, technologically, culturally. When Kennedy took office, the American economy was growing at a little more than 2% a year. By the end of 1963, the growth rate was nearly 6%. He came to office in the days of carbon paper, mimeograph machines and flashbulbs. Three years later, jet airliners, interstate highways, direct long-distance telephone dialing, and Polaroid cameras were speeding up people and life. New things and words were appearing almost every day: ZIP codes, Weight Watchers, Valium, transistors, computers, lasers, the Pill...