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...NASA'S GRAND SLAM The Hubble Space Telescope produced astonishing pictures of cosmic clouds, stellar nurseries and galactic collisions. The space shuttle executed a flawless linkup with the Russian space station Mir--twice. And a probe from the intrepid spacecraft Galileo became the first man-made object to plunge through the upper atmosphere of the planet Jupiter...
SPACE CENTER, Houston--In an extraordinary display of scientific cooperation between two former rivals, an American shuttle was closing in on a Russian space outpost yesterday for a joyous linkup high above Earth...
...Communications announced a $2 billion plan to connect corporate customers in 20 of the nation's biggest cities to its long-distance network directly -- bypassing the local Bell telephone companies and avoiding the access charges, now totaling $5 billion a year, that MCI pays them for their linkup. The move intensified calls in Washington for reduced regulation of the telecommunications industry...
...proposed British Airways-USAir linkup, the most controversial of them all, is seen by its U.S. partner as a move into the big leagues. After a decade of rapid expansion, USAir has stalled, losing $973 million since 1989. Says George James, an airline-industry analyst: "Their situation is desperate. They have grown into an airline the size of a global carrier without global routes. If they don't obtain the British Airways deal, they will have to reduce their size back down to that of a regional commuter airline...
...bottle with a champagne cork, and spaghetti automatically means fennel-raspberry pasta. To ask for a glass of ordinary tap water or regular coffee is to admit that you hail from Tulsa. Pretentious readings of bogus poetry have now been supplanted by SF Net, a coffeehouse computer linkup that enables pseudo avant-gardists to cross-chat electronically over their caffe e latte...