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Nowhere was this more evident than last week at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., where several dozen space scientists gathered to consider a new generation of so-called superpressure balloons. Floating to the very edge of the earth's atmosphere, these gossamer giants (as tall as 60-story buildings) will remain aloft up to 100 days. That's enough time to look for such elusive phenomena as planets in other solar systems, black holes and remnants of the Big Bang. Says astrophysicist Josh Grindlay, leader of a Harvard-Smithsonian group that uses balloons to map distant...
Just for the record: in the case of the U.S. v. Microsoft, Justice antitrust chief Joel Klein is not representing my views. Go, Gates! Long live Microsoft! DAVID J. JAFFA West Friendship, Md...
...Doctor Online, which was launched last month on AOL. The service (keyword: amdoc) provides free access to a real-time electronic chat with one of about 40 M.D.s 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The brainchild of Dr. Scott Rifkin, an internist who practices in Owings Mills, Md., America's Doctor Online offers a small library of medical information. For more complete resources, check out the American Heart Association www.amhrt.org or the Mayo Clinic www.mayohealth.org...
...they are learning math, the grammar of English or other languages, how to read music, run a four-cylinder engine, program a computer or balance a ledger. By strengthening our students' thinking abilities today, we can enrich their lives tomorrow. WILLIAM E. BROCK, Chairman Intellectual Development Systems, Inc. Annapolis, Md...
...passengers of Flight 111, that in-seat entertainment center may have been a deadly luxury. Last week Swissair announced it was shutting down the system on its 18 jumbo jets after Canadian investigators dredged up evidence of suspicious heat damage near the unit on the Geneva-bound MD-11 that crashed off the Nova Scotia coast Sept. 2, killing all 229 people aboard. The airline said the step was precautionary and no cause for the crash has been determined. Canada's Transportation Safety Board agreed with the airline's position, yet the findings point a finger of suspicion...