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Anatoli Shcharansky, 38, is only one of an estimated 10,000 political prisoners in the U.S.S.R., but he has come to stand as a compelling symbol of Soviet repression. A Jewish computer specialist, Shcharansky graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1972, at a time when long pent-up yearnings for freedom and justice were coming into the open in the Soviet Union. As a genuine human- rights movement coalesced, Shcharansky was fired up by its libertarian ideals and began working with groups that were pressing for large-scale Jewish immigration to Israel. At the same time...
Minolta's head start could prove hard to overcome. "They have a lot of momentum," says Eugene Glazer, a photo-industry specialist for the Dean % Witter Reynolds investment firm. Spurred by the Maxxum, Minolta's profits jumped almost 60% in the first half of fiscal 1985, to $28.5 million. The price of Minolta shares, which are traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, has increased about 60% since January 1985. Minolta closed last week at $4.82 a share...
...about quite a number of different technologies; to be able to use them somehow, to do something that required a concerted team effort and, finally, a great individual effort." She also took up racquetball and weight training. On her first shuttle flight, aboard Discovery in 1984, Mission Specialist Resnik operated the spacecraft's remote-control arm and performed solar-power experiments with a 102-ft.-high solar sail. She also provided one of the most memorable images in space- program history when television cameras aboard Discovery captured her--in polo shirt and shorts--concentrating on her tasks while her long...
...mission specialist on last week's flight, Resnik was supposed to help take photographs of Halley's comet, among other tasks. She was also carrying a signet ring for a nephew and a heart-shaped locket for a niece. "I think something is only dangerous if you are not prepared for it," she once said of space travel, "or if you don't have control over it or if you can't think through how to get yourself out of a problem." For Resnik, danger was simply another unknown to be mastered...
...danger of injury, there is the risk of wasting money on unneeded glitz or extras. Women, in particular, tend to be unfamiliar with exercise devices. "If I say dipping station to women, they haven't a clue as to what that is," says Marilyn Mitchell, a fitness specialist in the Washington area. (It is a set of parallel bars used to build upper-body strength.) Sometimes their decisions seem dictated more by decor than duty. "Women want to know how many colors the machines come in," notes Mitchell. "Men don't care...