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...back as the turn of the century, the Russian space pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote about large spinning habitats in space. But until recently any such idea was regarded as no more than pie in the sky by the upper reaches of the Reagan Administration. The turnabout came in December, when NASA Administrator James Beggs met with the President at the White House. The space chief emerged from that close encounter, in the words of one official, as if he "were orbiting on cloud nine...
...those days, such paintings were hardly an issue for American scholars and collectors, let alone European ones. For every word written on Church, Martin Johnson Heade or John Singleton Copley, there were 100 on Pollock and 200 on Picasso. The track of pioneer scholars in this field, like John Baur and Lloyd Goodrich, was hardly more beaten than Lewis and Clark's. It was as though, by general consent, all American art had been sunk in earnest provinciality until the 1940s, when abstract expressionism unburdened itself upon the world stage. Nobody believes this today. In fact, the pendulum...
...down and stayed down: stayed below zero for eight days in Omaha, ten days in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., three days in St. Louis. Much of the South suffered the most devastating cold in 20 years, and in the Great Plains and Midwest, weather historians saw parallels with dreadful pioneer winters. "This is decidedly the coldest December in Iowa," said State Climatologist Paul Waite. "It looks like it will beat 1876." Said National Weather Service Meteorologist Kenneth Bergman: "When the records are all in, this may be the worst December in 100 years for the whole...
...independents charge $100,000 to $200,000 annually to manage a $20 million fund, in contrast with the $50,000 that a bank typically asks. Naturally, clients who pay the high fees are demanding. Says Peter Vermilye, an industry pioneer who built up Alliance as an independent pension-fund manager before joining Citibank as chief investment officer: "If you cost more, you have to show you can walk on water...
Business School Professor William J. Abernathy, hailed by his colleagues as a pioneer in business technology management died December 29 at the age of 50 after struggling with cancer for four years...