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...distance would have to be far too large for such a mission. Other than plutonium generators, says physicist James Van Allen, discoverer of Earth's radiation belts, "there is no practical source of electrical power for spacecraft that go to the outer planets." Controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory report that Cassini, having already flown more than a billion miles, is in excellent shape. All systems are operating well, and the craft is on course for a flyby of home...
...there?s one word Wall Street loves these days, it?s "tame." That?s the best way to describe Tuesday?s report that the Consumer Price Index had risen a reasonable 0.3 percent in July (and an even more reasonable 0.2 percent excluding volatile food and energy prices). The morning news sparked a comfortable little rally based on a comfortable little assumption: When the Fed meets on August 24, Alan Greenspan will nudge up interest rates by a quarter point, and just a quarter point. "If you look at the general slope of the numbers, it?s apparent that inflation...
Days after Sisler started the job in September 1993, he got a call from Bruno. It wasn't working out, Bruno said. Sisler asked for a chance to prove himself but says he never got one. Sisler was told to report to a fellow vice president (instead of the chairman) and was assigned to a forlorn branch. In January 1994, Sisler was fired--without cause, he claims...
Lance Morrow's excellent report [CINEMA, July 19] on the recently released documentary film Return with Honor gives well-deserved recognition to the heroism of the American POWs who endured years of unspeakable torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese. In his televised interview, my father Commander Jeremiah Denton stunned and infuriated his captors by defying them directly with words that pledged his support to the American government "as long as I live...
...KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT Despite high-profile school shootings in places like Littleton, Colo., the good news is that overall teen violence, including homicide, is on the decline. A report last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that from 1991 to '97, the number of 9th-to-12th-graders who packed a weapon fell from 26% to 18%; those involved in a fight and needing treat-ment by a doctor or nurse dipped from...