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...initial justification for building a vehicle that wedded the technology of planes and rockets was to reduce the cost of space travel. However, the calculations depended on projections of extremely heavy traffic into space, with flights as frequent as every two weeks. Now, as a result of spiraling costs, scant demand from private industry for cargo space and the unexpectedly long turnaround time for getting the ship ready between missions, NASA will not reach this goal before the end of the decade. Critics wonder whether the shuttle will be competitive economically with Western Europe's expendable Ariane rocket, which...
...steps of the Basilica of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, carrying his own candle toward an altar outside the shrine, the black-clad figure lunged toward him. An alert Portuguese security guard swiftly wrestled the attacker into custody, but not before the man had come within a scant 3 ft. of John Paul. The Pope, indeed, was jostled as other security men pounced on the assailant, but frowning slightly in concern, the Pontiff continued moving up the stairs to circle the altar. Then, unexpectedly, he descended the steps to the site of the incident and lifted his hand...
...Iran during the hostage crisis. Paris Bureau Chief Pierre Salinger aptly pointed out that "in no country ... is the concept of freedom of information the same as in the U.S." That topic merits 90 minutes by itself - it is the overarching problem that American correspondents face - yet it got scant attention, except in offhand remarks about being denied access to combat zones...
Contrary to the last time out against the Bears, the batswomen committed a scant three errors in the first contest yesterday and played "the best defensive game we've had this year," according to second baseman Alissa Friedman...
Rodriguez has scant patience with middle-class ethnics, "filled with decadent self-pity," who resist entering the mainstream of American life. Today's bilingual classes, he maintains, keep children "poised at the edge of language too long." Using black English or Spanish in school is crippling because it reduces learning and delays assimilation; hence it reinforces a public form of separateness, a distinction that ultimately keeps minorities in their ghettos. "What I needed to learn in school was that I had the right-and the obligation-to speak the public language of los gringos," writes Rodriguez. "Only when...