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Extra ceiling padding and overhead airbags designed to prevent head injuries will be required in all cars, vans and light trucks beginning in 1998, the government announced today. The National Highway Traffic Administration estimates the new regulations will save about 1,200 lives annually. Butcar manufacturershave some concerns about the new rules, which will be phased in over five years beginning in September 1998. "Automakers are concerned that the amount of padding being required might obscure the vision of the driver," says TIME's Joseph Szczesny...
Surveys indicate that the number one fear of high school students is eating alone in a crowded cafeteria. Before coming to Harvard, I shared that fear. However, a careful inspection of the overhead photo of students eating elbow to elbow in the Union in the admissions packet quickly allayed my pre-frosh worries. After hearing during FOP about the famous composer who supposedly never ate alone during his undergraduate career, I decided to have a companion at every meal...
Twenty years ago, two young cold warriors--one a U.S. Air Force fighter jockey, the other a Soviet test pilot--watched from opposite sides of the world as their countries staged a high-tech media event. The brief political thaw known as detente was in full flow, and high overhead the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft were locked in an orbital tango. Their commanders reached through the spaceships' air locks for a symbolic handshake, amid much talk that the superpowers were going to move from the space race of the 1960s to a new era of space cooperation. Despite efforts...
...department is operating at a loss," Murphy says. "All the departments, including textbooks, contribute to overhead...
...There is a lot of overhead involved in that operation--it is very deceptive." Murphy says...