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...shuttle problem is, NASA will be able to correct it with relative ease. The agency prudently grounded not only the two faulty spaceships but the third shuttle as well, until engineers are satisfied that the hydrogen fuel system is safe. This means a wholesale rescheduling of NASA's launch program and corresponding delays in realizing all of NASA's scientific and military objectives...
Hubble never had an easy time. After the launch, engineers had to fiddle with stubborn antennas that refused to extend. When the antennas were fixed, the messages that came back to Earth indicated that the spacecraft was wobbling: when it swung from darkness to sunlight, the sun's rays striking Hubble's cold solar panels produced a minor vibration that caused the spacecraft to oscillate slowly. This motion confused instruments that were built to such precision that they could read a license plate 48 km (30 miles) away. NASA software designers are now writing programs to counteract the oscillations...
Economic growth in the 1990s will be determined largely by how well countries use the limited savings available. Yet even in today's deregulated markets the flow of capital in securities trading and in direct investment is hampered by inconsistent national rules. The leaders should launch an effort to harmonize those regulations and consider creating new agencies to carry out that job, for example an international Securities and Exchange Commission...
...Glimp who is responsible for making sure that each son and daughter of Mother Harvard gets enough letters and phone calls from Mom to keep the cash flowing. That task takes on crucial importance as the University gears up to launch its reported $2 billion fund drive soon...
...dizzying rate. Owen Lipstein's Psychology Today suspended publishing in February; struggling monthlies such as CMP's Long Island Monthly and Time Inc. Magazines' Southpoint went out of business; Rupert Murdoch's debt-ridden News Corp. sold the gossipy Star to the National Enquirer and delayed plans to launch its own weekly newsmagazine...