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...Russia space officials still believe they can save the station they've got. In July they will launch another Progress ship, this one with electrical cables and repair equipment, and they are devising a plan for the cosmonauts to access the stricken Spektr module in an effort to tap the pod's solar panels and restore power to the rest of the station. Should this fail and Mir's systems collapse completely, the crew could abandon ship in a Soyuz spacecraft docked outside, though they've already had to plunder a bit of the escape pod's precious thruster fuel...
...says. Subject only to his board of directors, he can make all decisions himself: "I don't always have to listen to the government." Zhang reduced the work force to 6,400, then farmed out an additional 1,000 workers to small related industries like repair shops. He started a plastics plant to absorb 2,000 more. "Here it is illegal to lay off workers," he says, "unless I can find them other jobs...
DIED. KAREN WETTERHAHN, 48, chemistry professor at Dartmouth College who studied how toxic metals inhibit DNA repair; of poisoning, months after two drops of the rare compound dimethylmercury spilled onto her latex gloves; in Lebanon...
Whether Xers stay home or strike out on their own, the generation gap yawns as wide as ever. Twentysomethings can paint a scathing portrait of their elders. "I think I was conceived on an acid trip," muses one Xer in the film Reality Bites. Another asks, "How can we repair all the damage we inherited?" Novelist Coupland, in a memorable essay in 1995, accused boomers, "pummeled by the recession and embarrassed by their own compromised '60s values," of "transferring their collective darkness onto the group threatening to take their spotlight." Indeed, pollsters find that boomers are markedly more pessimistic than...
...massacre over woeful Vermont in Harvard's last game of the season could do little to repair the damage the sputtering Crimson had done in late April and early May. This season was terribly anticlimactic compared to Harvard's gallant march into the NCAAs last year...