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...research program last week. Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, it turned out, had given the astronauts the wrong numbers to feed into Discovery's computerized guidance system. Rather than pointing down at a 9,994-ft. mountain, the shuttle turned upward, searching for a nonexistent peak 9,994 nautical miles high...
Almost out of the blue, toxic shock syndrome appeared in the U.S. in the late 1970s, spreading fear among women and baffling scientists. The disease, which reached its peak in 1980, when 890 cases were reported, occurred primarily in menstruating women, though men and children could also be affected. Toxic shock could strike with appalling speed, progressing in a matter of hours from fever and dizziness to a strange, sunburn-like rash and a drop in blood pressure so severe that the victim might go into shock. For about 4% of patients, TSS proved fatal. Scientists quickly linked the disease...
...ballads like I'll Remember You, furious on Seeing the Real You at Last and spooky on When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky, one of those pacesetter Dylan songs in which romantic anguish kaleidoscopes into a sneak preview of Armageddon. The writing in the album is near peak. Tight Connection to My Heart is a playful bit of lovelorn apocrypha, a mood, once established, that turns sinister toward the end of the record, with the ominous Something's Burning, Baby. The last song, Dark Eyes, is like one of those midnight Poe love poems, filled with grace notes...
...cautionary tale told by David Rosenbaum, an independent nuclear analyst in Washington, is about blackmail on a huge and frightening scale. A terrorist group manages to construct a nuclear weapon and uses it to blast the top off a peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The President is then told that other bombs have been planted in three U.S. cities and will be detonated unless he agrees to their terms: a total overseas troop withdrawal, an annual donation of $50 billion for Third World projects and the release of all black and Hispanic prisoners. It sounds like the stuff...
...which was the first business day after the discount rate cut, the Dow Jones industrial average surged 19.54 points to finish at a record 1304.88, its first close above the 1300 barrier. The bulls tacked additional 4.82 points onto the Dow average on Tuesday, lifting it to a new peak of 1309.7. At that point the market began suffering from one of its recurrent afflictions: acrophobia. Investors started cashing in some of their profits, sending the Dow back down. The industrial average finished the week...