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Another recent change has been the relinquishing of the Eliot coaching launch--a boat owned by Eliot House that could travel along side it crew...
...Eliot launch was the last and often troublesome vestige of an era when every house had its own coach and launch. For lack of funding, not every house could sustain the expense of keeping a launch...
...corridors, along with a bronze bust of "The Founder." Students, who have only the vaguest idea who Hubbard is, are impressed by the lavish appointments. But Western scholars in Moscow are outraged that the cult has gained such influence. With an outpost in an established university, Scientologists plan to launch a college of their own in Moscow this summer...
Still, for all the problems facing Angkor, it shares with the Cambodian people the hope of a brighter future. UNESCO will soon launch a yearlong, $500,000 study of environmental conditions in the Angkor region. The study will make zoning recommendations for future development -- particularly tourist access -- of what will be known as the Angkor Archaeological Park. But the investigation's main emphasis will be on the hydrology of the area and the possibility of restoring the ancient Khmer water system. Such a project could take until the end of the century to complete and cost more than $10 million...
...followed events on the ground with interest, for politics kept him aloft. After the aborted coup in August, newly emergent Kazakhstan, where the launch facilities are located, demanded that a Kazakh cosmonaut be put into space. The mission directors complied last October but had to talk a less than thrilled Krikalev into staying in orbit an extra five months to help train the new crew...