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...these troubles have plunged the gulf states into a unique recession. On the one hand, budgeted government spending, which fuels the economies of the area, has followed the path of energy earnings and taken a tumble. In Saudi Arabia (pop. 9.7 million), the largest and most energy rich of the Arab gulf nations, officials have allocated $75.4 billion for the current fiscal year, down 17% from the previous period. But the region's wealth remains so great that such cutbacks have not yet caused much hardship. "The gold rush is over," says one U.S. diplomat stationed in the area...
...aspects about the ninth shuttle flight. By the time Columbia lands on the California desert 144 orbits later on Dec. 7, it will have completed the longest shuttle journey, one day (and 400,000 miles) more than any previous flight. Columbia's six-man crew will be the largest to fly aboard the shuttle and will include the first non-American astronaut. But clearly the highlight of the trip will be the debut of the 33,252-lb. Spacelab. It represents the first real marriage of space engineering to fundamental scientific research in the manned space effort. Says Spacelab...
...students tended to get too high on social "relevance," as they called it, to learn much. Now social irrelevance is fashionable; schools tend to condone a lazy hero worship of famous designers instead of requiring students to think and create on their own. Parsons, one of the best and largest schools of fashion, graphic, interior and product design, with a New York enrollment of 6,700 and branches in Los Angeles and Paris, is no exception...
SITE's first real commission was the renovation of a Best Products Co. showroom in Richmond in 1971. Best Products is the largest U.S. catalogue showroom merchandiser, with a network of sales outlets that are essentially windowless brick boxes. In Richmond, SITE added a new façade that incongruously and dramatically seemed to be peeling...
...recent survey of the Wolong region, the largest of China's twelve panda reserves and site of a joint China-World Wildlife Fund panda study project, Botanist Qin Zisheng discovered that 95% of the bamboo had already bloomed. Now the pandas, which normally eat 25 to 30 lbs. of bamboo daily, are starting to eat ordinary grasses, although apparently without much joy: Qin says an examination of panda droppings indicates that the animals are suffering from indigestion...