Word: saturns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, are hardly disappearing. The Sony Playstation has acquired a fervent following, and in Los Angeles this week Sega will be trumpeting the arrival of a 32-bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog, a soaring game called Nights, and a Net Link telephone hookup that will allow Sega Saturn owners to use their systems as on ramps to the Information Highway...
...biggest changes, all agree, must come on the job, where family-friendly policies have too often been fringe benefits that anxious employees feel too insecure to exercise. A promising exception is General Motors' Saturn Co. in Spring Hill, Tennessee, where teams of up to 15 people decide how they will meet production goals set by management. Employees work 10-hour days, four days a week, with rotating day and night shifts. At the end of each three-week cycle, they get five consecutive days off. This adds up to far more family time a year and creates flexibility within...
There is another, intriguing possibility, however. As Marcy points out, the planets are almost certainly orbited by one or more moons. "If they are comparable in size to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn," he says, "they could easily have rain and oceans." Such speculations fire the imagination. But the mere fact that these giant planets exist is enough for the scientists. As astronomers have learned, the discovery of one or two new heavenly objects is usually just the beginning. Marcy's team is already analyzing data from some 60 other stars. "We have hints," he says, "that there...
DIED. ARTHUR RUDOLPH, 89, rocket scientist; in Hamburg, Germany. Rudolph developed the towering Saturn V booster that hurled American astronauts to the moon in 1969. But in the 1980s he was driven into exile after the Justice Department linked him to the use of forced labor at a Nazi V-2 rocket factory...
...Mental Health, she writes her books, sees close friends and takes long walks. But like many who have lived life at the highest pitch, Jamison finds being "normal" a "bittersweet exchange." "I know without lithium I'd be dead or insane," she says. And yet "I don't see Saturn's image now without feeling an acute sadness...