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With skins of an ultrathin, steely composite of polyester and polyethylene ("like sandwich bags," says Tueller), the new balloons will withstand pressures created by stratospheric solar heating and retain enough helium to circle the globe five to 10 times. The first of NASA's smaller trial balloons is to be launched in March 1999, to be followed a year later by a demonstration flight carrying a Washington University cosmic-ray detector. Over the horizon Tueller sees more astronomy and astrophysics experiments as well as Earth monitoring, such as observing the ozone hole, and perhaps even semipermanent balloons to replace some...
...Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, which met in 1973, concluded that taking away the citizenship rights of offenders, including their right to vote, would inhibit the criminal justice system's efforts to reform them. "If correction is to reintegrate an offender into free society, the offender must retain all attributes of citizenship. It stated, "Mandatory denials of that participation serve no legitimate public interest...
...MELTING POT, BUT A SALAD BOWL." This, we are told, is multicultural America, where different ethnicities don't simply blend into a common fondue of American identity but retain their distinctive flavor to enrich a larger American salad. Ideally, the lettuce appreciates the tomatoes for the tomato-ness, the mushrooms for their mushroom-ness, and so on; yet we are often too busy to examine each component of the salad bowl for its complexities. We chew it quickly, sensing only what is most immediate to our tastebuds, nod, and move on to the next bite, Thus it is that American...
...have a lot of confidence in our upperclassmen," said Jo, last year's Ivy runner-up in the 200-yard freestyle. "We've been able to retain most of our strengths from last year...
...government quickly takes action against the infection, forcing those already blind and those thought exposed to the virus to quarantine themselves within a mental hospital. Within the wards the inmates struggle to retain their humanity in an atmosphere in which hygiene is not an option, food is scarce and raw, and instinct threatens to rule their passions and actions. A militant group of inmates soon takes command of the wards, raping the women and killing anyone who disobeys them. Excrement, garbage, blood and corpses slowly fill the hospital as, with horror, the inmates feel themselves sinking further and further away...