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Forget taking a shower before bed. Leverett House found themselves without water last night after a leak on Plympton Street lowered water pressure below usable levels...
...serial numbers on pieces of attached thermal tile, NASA was able to confirm the two pieces of metal, one 6 by 15 feet, the other 1 by 5 feet, were from the doomed shuttle. Challenger flew for 73 seconds after lifting off the pad at the Cape when a leak in one of the shuttle's solid fuel rockets caused the explosion. A sobering reminder, at a time when the U.S. space program is looking ahead to the construction of the international space station, of just how dangerous space exploration...
...increase minority ownership of service stations and do more business with minority-owned companies. Texaco's record so far does not inspire great faith--and some questions still need to be answered. Why did it take more than two years of legal action by six aggrieved black employees, the leak of an embarrassing tape recording and the threat of a boycott to get Texaco to live up to the fine-sounding promises in its glossy equal-opportunity brochures? Why was it so hard for black Texaco employees to be taken seriously when they complained about being called "porch monkeys...
...JUAN, Puerto Rico: A massive explosion ripped the side off a six-story building in San Juan Thursday morning, killing at least 19 and injuring 82. Investigators believe a natural gas leak may be responsible, but are looking into other possible causes. The blast, believed to have originated in a shoe store, carved a 50-foot-wide hole out of the side of the building which is located in a residential and shopping district. "There were just parts of bodies lying in the street, torsos, bones, cars blasted against the building," Police Chief Pedro Toledo said. Owners of the shoe...
...precarious. Many of the President's top aides (especially deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, who was running the campaign) were gunning for Morris and trying to block his every move. Morris had convened the meeting in a private home, not an office; he didn't want anything to leak...