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...airless lab and installed a new cable system that will provide electricity to Spektr and the rest of the power-thirsty station. "This is a super day," exulted NASA astronaut Michael Foale, who waited out the space walk inside Mir's Soyuz re-entry vehicle, the crew's lifeboat in case they had to abandon ship. "Well done, everybody...
...Russian Mir program may prove to be a far more difficult task, reports TIME's Dick Thompson. "While NASA insists that meaningful work can be achieved, many people believe that the only meaningful work that can be done now is learning survival skills in a leaking lifeboat. These critics are arguing more loudly than ever that the US-Mir program is not a science program at all, but a transparent tool of foreign policy designed to help the Russian space program through an enormously difficult period of political and economic instability." As Mir continues to limp around the Earth, NASA...
DIED. EDITH HAISMAN, 100, oldest Titanic survivor; in Southampton, England. In 1912, at age 15, she sailed with her parents on the doomed vessel, and afterward spent a lifetime recalling the night when she and her mother watched from a distant lifeboat as the liner sank, with her father aboard...
...with the persistence of the urban problem," says John Chubb, co-author of Politics, Markets & America's Schools, "a feeling that if an alternative really is out there, can it be so terrible to give it a try?" Like passengers on the Titanic who have just heard about a lifeboat raffle, low-income parents are the most excited about vouchers. Average household income for families participating in Cleveland's school-choice program is $6,597. When 6,500 students applied for the 2,000 grants, the city had to distribute them through a lottery. Sister Theresine Cregan recalls registration night...
...scrutiny," which focuses this week on first-year outreaches, was named after Sir Larry Scrutiny. A Harvard graduate, Sir Scrutiny was a passenger on the historic Pacific Princess. With one foot on the lifeboat that would carry him and nine lucky others to safety, Scrutiny forfeited his place upon realizing that he had left a brilliant piece of investigative journalism in the ship's infirmary, with Doc. That's also why we serve popsicles three times a day here...