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...more certain project for the moment is the Hamburg-Hannover line, which the West German government committed itself to building last June, with operation scheduled for the mid-1990s. The track is planned as the first segment of a 600-mile Kiel-Munich line, but not all systems are go yet. Some politicians and many citizens remain unconvinced that the $1.8 billion needed for the first segment will be money well spent, especially with $1.35 billion already allocated for a high-speed conventional-railway project called the Inter-City Experimental. Transrapid supporters, however, do not think the choice between conventional...
...consists of some 30,000 tons of deadly liquids and gases. About two-thirds of that hoard is kept in drums; the rest is contained in weapons ranging from some 3 million artillery rounds to nearly 500,000 rockets. Though virtually all are scheduled to be destroyed by the mid-1990s, the stockpiles have raised safety issues. Congress learned last April that the Army has discovered more than 1,000 leaking chemical weapons since...
...appropriate rock samples and stow them in a craft designed to return them to earth for analysis. At NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., experts are designing living quarters for the space station that the U.S. hopes to begin assembling in earth orbit in the mid-1990s. Plans call for private sleeping cubicles, each equipped with a TV, sound systems and a computer. Mars enthusiasts point out that approval of a manned Mars mission as a goal would finally provide a compelling rationale for the projected $30 billion space station that NASA has had trouble selling...
These same studies say that for there to be a balance between minority students and minority teachers, 500,000 of the nation's estimated 1.5 million new teachers must be from minority backgrounds by the mid-1990s...
...unions' campaign to win mandatory VDT safeguards shows every sign of becoming one of organized labor's more determined efforts of the post-industrial age. Some 19 million people, most of them women, currently work at VDTs in the U.S., a number that will more than double by the mid-1990s...