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...have to ignore scrapes and sprains. "I had to keep going and not let my team down," says Private Scott Feather. The Marines say the beefed-up regimen is working, based on early anecdotal evidence of fewer disciplinary problems and a dip in attrition. This week the Navy will launch its own 12-hour version of the Crucible...
That's what the U.S. is starting to wonder as well. Joint operations aboard Mir were originally designed to give American astronauts space-station experience prior to the launch of a new international space station in 1998 and to keep the Russians engaged in a high-profile cooperative project. But a series of mishaps on the creaky, 11-year-old Mir over the past six months has raised questions about the station's safety, threatening to send space cooperation into what may turn out to be an uncontrolled spin of its own. Some U.S. legislators, reflecting widespread public exasperation, want...
That is evidently the case in Santa Fe. The launch of the museum and the assembly of the 87 works in its nascent permanent collection, worth about $15 million, have come about thanks largely to Texas cattle baroness Anne Marion and her husband John, the former chairman of Sotheby's North America. Approached in 1995 to contribute funds and some of her O'Keeffe paintings to the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, Anne Marion decided on a dramatic and wholly Texan response: establish a museum devoted to O'Keeffe herself...
...fall of 1932, Chasteney was employed by Time, Inc. Chasteney worked for Time, Architectural Forum, and Magazine of Building before helping to launch House and Home...
...said, "but no official simulations or the actual spacewalk ? none of that's been approved by NASA yet." The twice-delayed repairs are now scheduled to begin July 24, less than two weeks before the Mir's replacement crew, composed of two Russians and a Frenchman, is slated to launch on August 5. Foale, whom the Russians have suggested is not only able but very willing to help, may have convinced his cautious superiors on Earth to give him a little space...