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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Even if the reports of the discovery of alien bacteria from Mars turn out to be mistaken, the enthusiasm developing in the wake of yesterday's announcement has some serious implications for the future of planetary research. NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin asked for a "robust program of exploration" of Mars, and it seems he may get it. On Wednesday, President Clinton announced that the U.S. would follow up the discovery with international scientists at a space summit this November. Two unmanned probes blasting off for scientific missions to Mars this November and December will be followed by eight...
...Clinton for being willing to settle for inadequate growth, as evidenced by the 2.5% 1996 forecast. Dole's advisers think a promise of faster acceleration, to be achieved largely by tax cuts, may be just the thing to bring the President down. Clinton boasts that he has already achieved robust growth--10 million new jobs since his Inauguration--and his advisers promise to push it beyond 2.5% in future years...
...millions of people around the world would give anything to share them," Clinton said. The President noted that in a heartening endorsement of the new Russian democracy, two-thirds of eligible Russian voters had gone to the polls Wednesday. He also took time to claim credit for the continued robust growth in the U.S. economy, the rise in average American wages and the 9.7 million jobs created since he took office, reiterating his plan to make the first $10,000 in college tuition deductible: "I want every one who wants to, to be able to go to college." Perhaps feeling...
...hope of retaining market share. With only some 8% of the PC market, Apple is rushing to retool its core computer line before weary loyalists decide they've had enough and switch to Microsoft's Windows 95. Operation Rainbow's second phase, which will include the launching of a robust new line of computers, should come this fall. Chahil hopes it will change the logo's hue again, this time to the color of money...
...Homer went to London in 1881 and then settled in the village of Cullercoats on the coast, near Newcastle. He painted the fisherfolk: the men, massive in their rain-slicked oilskins, and the women mending nets and waiting on shore. The distended shapes of windblown clothes give these already robust female figures a sculptural air: you feel the gale blowing their aprons into spinnakers. Homer had to have been looking at the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum, with their fluent drapery rippling across limbs and torso. Sometimes these shawled women, silhouetted against the scudding gray, have the presence...