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...According to Venture Economics, a market-research firm, an entrepreneur needs at least $8,000 to start a home-based business, which includes office supplies and equipment but not rent. Starting the same business in prime office space would take at least $50,000 in start-up capital. To launch a retail establishment, such as a bakery shop or a video store, could require as much as $200,000 in financing. A manufacturing concern would need much more: $1 million just to get off the ground...
...wake of the Challenger tragedy six years ago, the space agency put a premium on caution -- but only up to a point. NASA's top ranks are dominated by gung-ho former astronauts who are determined to keep launches on a tight schedule. An apparent victim of that policy is FORREST MCCARTNEY, director of the Kennedy Space Center, who was forced out last month after he twice refused to approve a final "go for launch" because of safety concerns. Both flights went smoothly after the problems were fixed -- in one case a hydrogen-fuel leak and in another a warped...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, according to British diplomats, has already grabbed a share of control of strategic nuclear weapons. He supposedly has custody of the codes for arming the warheads, though Gorbachev would still have to give the order to launch the missiles. Yeltsin wants more; he has proposed that all the old union's nuclear weapons be put under Russian authority alone. Ukraine objects -- it wants warheads moved to Russia only for purposes of having them destroyed, and then only if the destruction is verified by international inspectors...
Asked where the U.S. should use its muscle, the Iranian replied, "Lebanon. If you tell him, 'You have to release all the hostages in Lebanon within five days, otherwise we are going to launch a military strike against you,' and not only that, you'll do it. You have to show you are strong." There were Americans who felt the same way, but apparently none of them could make a solid case for what the U.S. should do if Khomeini called the bluff...
...been enhanced, warning times in case of attack have been reduced. The helicopter flight time from the White House to Mount Weather is about 20 minutes, but a missile fired at the U.S. by a submarine lying just off the coast could strike within 10 to 15 minutes after launch. And there are some nuclear-weapons experts who say, all planning and testing notwithstanding, a direct nuclear hit on Mount Weather would destroy...