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...stream along the sidewalks and across the street carrying plastic bags emblazoned with pricey logos: ADIDAS, CALVIN KLEIN, VILLEROY & BOCH. Just who, a gridlocked visitor wonders, would come to rural Flemington, N.J., to buy such chic cityside items as Waterford crystal or Joan & David shoes? The answer: a growing legion of well-heeled devotees of factory-outlet shopping...
...space program getting back on track, some caution flags were raised last week. "It was an impressive and important first step," says John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's Space Policy Institute. "But many of the problems that have been there are still there." Those problems are legion. For starters, the shuttle's complexity and NASA's heightened concern for safety lead many experts to doubt the agency's ability to hold to even its relatively modest schedule of 18 more flights between now and the end of 1990. Richard Truly, the agency's space-flight director, concedes that...
Since so much that Bush and Dukakis do and say is prepackaged and programmed, the press naturally emphasizes the rare unscripted moments, whatever their lasting significance. There was a brief and meaningless flap after an overexuberant Bush bizarrely ad-libbed to the American Legion convention that Sept. 7 (and not Dec. 7) was the 47th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. The news last Tuesday night featured both candidates fending off hecklers: militant right-to-lifers who shouted Dukakis down in suburban Chicago and outspoken hardhats who jeered Bush in Portland, Ore. There was little evidence that either group was representative...
...friend asked Rep. Marie E. Howe (D-Somerville) if she needed a life-saver as the unofficial figures reporting her defeat to Rep. Peter A. Vellucci were announced at her "victory party" at the American Legion in Somerville...
...with every conceivable need. Some passersby do not believe their stories; others just do not believe in giving handouts. But even those who once unfailingly reached out to any outstretched palm now find themselves overwhelmed and unsure: To give or not to give? In Manhattan, where the beggars are legion, the sheer weight of their number and the volume of their appeals have set the city on edge. "New Yorkers feel besieged by the city's dirt, by noise, by heat," says Robert Levy of the New York Civil Liberties Union. "Now they also feel besieged by panhandlers...