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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just what that something was may be hard to pinpoint. Of the six launch fiascoes, three involved new, profit-driven rockets: the bulked-up Delta 3, with twice the lift-off muscle of its Delta 2 ancestor; and the Athena 2, a smaller rocket with less propulsive oomph but a bargain price tag. The most recent Titan flub appears to involve misfirings of the rocket's upper stage, a $1.23 billion mistake that may have been caused by badly loaded software. Other miscues have included everything from an electrical short, which caused another Titan to explode, to faulty guidance, which...
...best-known cover, a classic commentary on the provincialism of great cities, ended as a poster on tens of thousands of walls. It is the Manhattanite's view from New York City: Eighth and Ninth avenues wide in the foreground, a strip of Hudson River, a smaller strip of New Jersey, the rest of the U.S. missing, and in the far background some mere dots marking Los Angeles, Australia and Japan...
...smaller carriers view the suit as long overdue. "It has to be determined if there is anything in this industry that is unfair," says Sam Addoms, president and CEO of Frontier Airlines, a regional carrier based in Denver. "To date, it's been anything goes...
...June 16, members of the Massachusetts Association of Teachers and the Massachusetts Federation of Teachers will rally on Boston Common. According to the Massachusetts Association of Teachers' Web site, the teachers will be turning out in favor of "smaller class sizes, safe and healthy schools, alternative programs for disruptive students, more early childhood education and mentor programs for new teachers." Although the rally's goals are certainly laudable, the organizations conspicuously ignore the one measure that could truly improve public schools: raising teachers' salaries so that they are comparable with those of similar professions...
...restructuring of the Phillips Brooks House Association. Lewis apparently learned something from that difficult first year, at least in regard to public relations; it has been largely smooth sailing since. Lewis's only recent gaffe was the decision to split the role of Dean of Students into three smaller posts, rather than appoint an energetic new dean. Further, the administration's generous new financial aid policy has made Harvard a leader in that field as well, despite rising tuition. Verdict: Better to even...