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NASA officials, with their normal tumble of superlatives, deemed the mission a "great success." Said the chief mission scientist, Eugene Urban: "Scientists will be busy for years working with these data." Yet a few gremlins still lurk. Three times in the past year, the launch procedures have resulted in near disaster. And though Discovery waits eagerly on deck, ready for a late August launch, NASA remains way behind schedule. --By Natalie Angier. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Kennedy Space Center
...tended to be a little withdrawn, taciturn, my uncle Lew was the friendliest. He had been a salesman, and he liked to drive around and drop in on people. He would converse, ask how we were doing in school, but there would be a point when he would get launched, and we would try to launch him. There were two different house-burning stories. I worked in a little bit of one in the book, the one where Great Grandpa came back from the Colorado gold flelds, is the legend, and the gold dust was all lost in the blaze...
...scholarly patent attorney who, in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, invented the process that made Xerox a name to copy. Linowitz tells how, as the firm's lawyer and later its chairman, he helped Carlson and Joseph Wilson, an impossibly energetic Rochester businessman, launch a product that ended up creating its own demand. The now ubiquitous machine, says Linowitz, "was a case where invention was the mother of necessity...
...other 80 will be given certificates of merit. All the winners' names will appear next spring in a special insert in TIME; the top 20 will be profiled. Judging will be conducted by TIME and panels of distinguished educators and community leaders. To launch the awards, TIME last month published a special section in its campus editions called "Portraits in Excellence," in which 14 illustrious former college students, including Astronomer Carl Sagan, Journalist Barbara Walters, Architect I.M. Pei, Choreographer Agnes de Mille and IBM Board Chairman John Opel, were asked to look back at their school years and reflect...
...Hammer and his nonlocal charity were considered not the right sort. Still, the audiences of royal freaks and Dihard fans who formed at their every stop will remember best the bright moments: Diana clutching at one of her flying-saucer hats as a sudden gust of wind tried to launch it, or the Prince, tongue in cheek, declining to speak for his wife for fear she would be cross with him later. The pair inserted some nice adlibs into the script. Upon being presented with a quilt at one stop, Charles asked, "Is it king-size or queen-size?" Explaining...