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...Japanese have a way of making big moves quietly. Only a handful of onlookers stood in the cold one evening last week to watch a slim red-and- silver rocket roar off the pad at the Kagoshima Space Center near Uchinoura, some 940 km (598 miles) southwest of Tokyo. But despite the minimal press coverage and lack of hoopla, the event was a major milestone for Japan's space program. The launch sent the unmanned Muses-A probe on its way to the moon, the first lunar mission since the Soviets' Luna 24 in 1976. Muses-A is expected...
Today--mostly sunny and mild, high around 50. Wind southwest increasing to 10 to 20 mph. Tonight--cloudy periods with a few sprinkles possible, low 35 to 40. Tomorrow--chance of rain or snow, high around 40. Chance of precipitation 30 percent...
...take solace in the notion that the college football season is enriched, not impoverished, by ending with an imaginary championship played in the mind of every partisan fan. Or he can follow the Southern Miss theory to its happy conclusion. Let's see: Southern Miss was beaten by Southwest Louisiana, which was defeated by Tulane, which was defeated by Virginia Tech, which was beaten by Virginia, which, in its first game of the season, was defeated by . . . Notre Dame...
Welcome to the upside-down '90s. Not since collapsing oil prices sent Texas and the rest of the Southwest into a slump nearly a decade ago has the U.S. witnessed such a stunning reversal of regional fortunes. The new winners include Midwestern farmers and Rustbelt manufacturers whose prosaic products, from corn to machine tools, are in hot demand around the world. Among the losers are Wall Street investment bankers, whose earnings have plunged with the waning of the buyout binge, and defense contractors across the country, who can expect new cutbacks as the cold war ends...
...topsy-turvy U.S. economy, it depends where you live. The Northeast is slumping; the Southwest is resurgent. -- Navy agents crack a bid-rigging scheme...