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...feels the same about the Rudnick clan of Piscataway, N.J. Paul's father Norman was a physicist at Gulton Industries, which, Paul says, "developed a lot of things that to this day I do not understand: capacitors, transistor devices that would go into everything from Osterizers to rocket ships." Later he edited one of the first textbooks on AIDS. Selma has worked for Partisan Review, for the Pennsylvania Ballet and now for a Philadelphia concert producer. Paul's older brother Evan, a jack-of-all-trades, lives near Ithaca, N.Y. "He has long hair and a beard and is very...
What's onstage, however, is anything but stuffy. In a tryout last July at California's La Jolla Playhouse, the first act moved like a rocket, while the second act sputtered. So composer-lyricist Pete Townshend and director Des McAnuff rewrote the libretto again, added new music and clarified -- purists would say changed -- the underlying message. Now the whole production hurtles forward with visual excitement and emotional clout worthy of the score...
...that Russians may end up doing far more. One serious obstacle to building Freedom is that it could take as many as 18 shuttle flights, each one risking the lives of astronauts, to get the necessary construction materials into space. Using the Russians' unmanned Energia booster, the most powerful rocket in the world, could reduce the number of launches and greatly decrease the risk. The Russians are already fabricating parts for their next space station, Mir-2. The new station could be used as a model for Freedom, or the two could be combined into one large unit...
...worries me, because you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see this means there will be fewer retirements.. and this is going to diminish the number of appointments of people of color and women," says McCarthy...
According to a new study by Bruce Blair of the Brookings Institution, the Russian President and Defense Minister must jointly transmit an order to fire missiles to the uniformed chiefs of the general staff and the rocket forces, who both hold the launch codes. This Russian form of group responsibility depends on the military's obedience to political leaders. If Yeltsin was ever forced out of office, Vice President Alexander Rutskoi would be his legal successor; if Yeltsin refused to accept dismissal, which of the two would the generals choose to obey? Whatever they might decide, the ability to launch...