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...have a different set of leaders this semester and it hasn't been really high on their list," Haynes said...
This time, for a change, Dole avoids what he calls the "process things," the recitation of supportive polls, the list of impressive endorsements from local pols and the observation that "it feels different this time, it feels good." The reception is familiar: tepid applause from an audience that seems resigned rather than enthusiastic. Collectively, they seem to have concluded, "It looks like he's our guy, and we don't want Clinton, so we'd better get used...
...complex array of corrective mirrors--essentially fitting the Hubble with a set of eyeglasses--was a high-cost ($700 million), high-risk venture, and some astronomers were dubious. "They considered the whole thing to be rather a Rube Goldberg creation," says Spitzer. On top of that, the list of tasks assigned to the astronauts who flew the repair mission--not just installing the new optics, but replacing an outdated camera, two wobbly solar-energy panels and three faulty gyroscopes, among other balky components--seemed too long. "I don't think anyone except the astronauts themselves thought they could complete...
...complete it they did, in a series of televised space walks that riveted the nation's attention in December 1993. Floating on the verge of a black void, the crew of the shuttle Endeavour checked off one item after another on their impossible list until, in what Bahcall calls a display of "superhuman intelligence and ability," they were done. NASA's badly battered reputation was on the line, but within days the report came in: the images were excellent. "It was hard to believe," Bahcall remembers. "Each instrument worked exactly as it was designed...
...hard as any in America; the struggle was a fact of life, but it didn't define Alma. "We were going to school, falling in love, shopping for clothes, being teenagers," says her best friend from those days, Yvonne Hamilton. "Confronting white power wasn't high on our list." Whip smart, Alma graduated from high school at 16 and from college at 19, then went on to become an audiologist in Boston, where she met Colin. "She succeeded in part because she was mentored by powerful, directed adults who never for a moment considered themselves inferior to anyone," says Odessa...