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While faculty worry about funding, concentrators' greatest worries tend to be how the outside world will react when learning about their esoteric fields of study. Indian Studies concentrator Nelson finds that "usually people are surprised, pleasantly surprised most of the time. They want to know what it's all about." Rogers, however, says he doesn't like having to "explain what [Afro-American Studies] is and justify why you're majoring...
...panel that the errant flame was first visible at 59.8 seconds into the flight. Graham explained on TV that the flame "appears to grow and grow . . . until it finally goes to the explosion point." Thus the controllers and astronauts had only 13 seconds to discover the problem and react. But NASA officials testified that escape would have been impossible in any case. Arnold Aldrich, shuttle manager at the Johnson Space Center, told the commissioners that Challenger could not have separated from the boosters and the tank until the solid-fuel rockets had completed their uncontrolled firing, about two minutes after...
...results of all of this: if IBM, South Africa goes under and other companies react in the same way, more than 100,000 Blacks will lose jobs--the best jobs made available to them under the Sullivan Principles. Most probably, they will go back to the "homelands...
...confront if it promotes more terrorism. The U.S. contends that Gaddafi was at least partly responsible for the Christmas-week massacres at the Rome and Vienna airports. Beyond that, senior U.S. officials seemed eager to provoke Gaddafi into a military response. Said one Pentagon official: "If they don't react, we've exposed them as a paper tiger...
...motives of the FDO are unclear. They said they did what they felt was right. But it bothers me very much that an office full of people whose job it is to look after freshmen and understand them--should react as they did in this case. They acknowledged that they knew a lot about Sam. They knew that Sam's father died in an auto accident a year ago, and that Sam was extremely upset by this. They knew he couldn't tell his mother about his troubles because it would break her heart. They knew that...