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In its struggle to get the shuttle launched, NASA has already been forced to drain funds from other areas, especially those concerned with the unmanned exploration of the solar system. To NASA's great embarrassment, it has had to drop out of a joint effort to position two satellites...
Criminals are not known for following the daily fluctuations of commodities markets, but they do have a sense of the value of things. When copper prices begin to climb, urban vandals start pulling pipes out of abandoned apartment buildings. Gold prices soar, and thieves start ripping necklaces off passersby. Now...
South Florida is becoming the heart of darkness. In Dade County this year, at least 200 aluminum poles have been stolen from storage yards or felled at roadside with axes and blowtorches. Police estimate that the 40-ft., 300-lb. poles, which cost the county $1,500 each to replace...
In a sense, then, the Poles are imperiled either way. Yet, in another sense, they are not. For, if there is little choice whether they pay attention to the Soviet threat, there is still a good deal of choice in the way they pay attention to it, how deeply and...
Not since 1966, when Gemini 9 was delayed by an electrical malfunction, had a launch been scrubbed with the astronauts already in the cockpit. And critics used the setback to raise again what has by now become a litany of complaints about the shuttle program: it is too expensive-nearly...