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...While things were becoming bizarre on Earth, a more familiar sight greeted us far above the planet: that of Mir's computer system crashing, for the third time. How did the crew react? By shrugging their shoulders and heading off to bed, of course. Ah, it's good to know some things never change...
...Palestinian President Arafat left both sides skeptical (TIME Daily)... Scots go to the polls today to vote on a plan for a Scottish Parliament, but will they give it "Tartan Tax"-raising powers? (TIME Daily) ... NASA's Martian "spy satellite," Global Surveyor, begins its first orbit of the Red Planet (TIME Daily) ... Twenty years after South African security police beat him to death, Steve Biko is getting his day in court (TIME Daily) ... National Security Adviser Samuel Berger tells the Senate campaign finance probe that he saw no evidence of "extraneous" influence on Clinton foreign policy (AllPolitics) ... As the clean...
Expect more dramatic pictures from the Red Planet tomorrow as the Mars Global Surveyor settles into orbit for a three-year high-altitude mapping mission...
...after the Rodney King beating, Los Angeles is policed very differently. The L.A.P.D. has shown impressive progress. Its percentage of white officers has decreased from 61.3% in March '91 to 50% in July '97, producing a rank and file less likely to see a minority community as a hostile planet. The proportion of female officers, whom studies show are less prone to abusive behavior, has increased from 13.3% to 17.4% in the same time period. Citizen complaints are monitored by a new office of inspector general. "It's quite a different face on the Los Angeles police department," says Edith...
Your articles underlined the urgent need to turn our fishermen into farmers--sea farmers. Rather than battling over fishing rights, nations should be establishing giant seafood farms in the multiplicity of bays and gulfs on our planet. If we are to survive, aquaculture must become as ordinary as agriculture. GILLIAM CLARKE Wesley Chapel...