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...life imitating Arthur C. Clarke: A skittish computer malfunctions aboard a manned space station, putting a bid to retrieve a U.S. astronaut in jeopardy. Mir's main computer may not be a HAL 9000, but it has spent the last three days succesfully resisting all puny human attempts to restart it. The malfunctioning mainframe may prevent space shuttle Discovery from picking up the Australian-born Andrew Thomas this Friday, since NASA flight regs prohibit docking without an operational steering system on the other end. Now shuttle managers are meeting to decide whether to abandon Tuesday's launch altogether...
...during the battered Russian station's string of misadventures last year -- and was successfully rebooted. But it's never baffled the folks in Moscow quite so much. Neither a reboot nor a replaced unit has brought it back online yet. Next up: A telemetry data upload and long-distance restart. The crew is hopeful: "They still have a lot of spares," said mission control spokesman Valery Lyndin. With luck, they'll find the glitch before it strikes up a chorus of "Daisy, Daisy...
...Force insists they were. A week after the third fatal crash in 28 months, the planes were ordered back into the air. The Air Force finally grounded the T-3s last July 25 after an engine once again stopped in midair and neither the cadet nor the instructor could restart it. Luckily, the plane was over the academy runway and landed safely. "We want an effective flight-screening program, but a safe one," says General Lloyd Newton, head of the service's Air Education and Training Command in San Antonio, Texas, who ordered the grounding. "We've certainly bumped into...
Michael Jackson's image was in tatters. His album sales were flagging. And the tabloids were running out of space to print Jacko stories, ranging from his alleged child molestation to his bizarre marriage to--and divorce from--Lisa Marie Presley. To whom did the troubled singer turn to restart his faltering career? Desert royalty from Saudi Arabia, one of the most culturally isolated nations on earth, where even Beethoven concerts, much less Michael Jackson spectacles, are banned by the government...
...bull market. At the same time, a sharp drop in demand for U.S. exports could slow or stall the soundest peacetime expansion in recent American history. Perhaps more worrisome is the danger Rubin warned against--that Japan and Korea might slash prices of exports to the U.S. to restart their economic engines, and thereby ignite a trade...