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...relations with him were always the same as anybody, anybody who came into his orbit. Reagan had no interest in individual human character. Therefore it was all one, whether the Biographer walked into the oval office, or a Labor Union leader, or the President of Bangladesh. So I never got past that genial...
...bound to have growing pains; PH?s latest was a $228 million loss for the quarter that ended in December 1998. Despite Earl?s rote assertion that "Today is the first step in our plan... for a return to long-term profitability and healthy growth," this planet?s orbit is looking mighty wobbly. Once a fresh update of the Hard Rock Caf? model, the tourist-trap turf has been invaded by everyone from sports figures (All-Star Caf?) to bikers (Harley Davidson Caf?) and wrestlers (the WWF restaurant, coming soon to New York?s legendary Paramount Theater). Does...
Your article on the failure of several rockets to launch their payloads [SPACE, May 24] implied that the world's satellite makers must depend on Russian, Chinese and European rockets to get into orbit. Nowhere did you make note of the most reliable booster in the world today--the Lockheed-Martin Atlas launch vehicle. The Atlas has had 43 consecutive successful launches of commercial and government satellites. That is a fabulous record in this very challenging business. The U.S. looks a bit better when the bad news is mitigated by the good. LEE R. SCHERER, FORMER DIRECTOR Kennedy Space Center...
...looks like the space race all over again -- and just like the Sputnik beat the United States into orbit, the Russians got into Kosovo before anyone from the West. And that?ll be a blow to a lot more than just NATO?s pride, because it shows that Moscow -- although it's all described as a big "mistake" -- doesn?t accept the second-fiddle peacekeeping role envisaged for it by the Western alliance. While NATO forces delayed their entry into the province for logistical reasons Friday, a Kosovo-bound Russian convoy raced through Serbia from Bosnia, bearing the markings...
...strike Earth, another newly discovered asteroid is causing concern. This one is 1999 AN10, a kilometer-wide hulk that in 2027 could hurtle past us as little as 20,000 miles away. First spotted in January, the asteroid attracted little attention when Italian astronomers posted preliminary calculations of its orbit on their website. But when these results were repeated on CCnet, a widely read e-mail network, some astronomers were outraged. They felt an unwarranted repeat of last year's scare would be the astronomical equivalent of crying wolf and could lead to public indifference. But news of 1999 AN10...