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...President, representatives of the other 15 NATO states and Russian President Boris Yeltsin will meet in Paris on May 27 to sign the accord, which will establish a NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council to discuss security issues, without, according to U.S. officials, limiting NATO's authority to station troops or weapons wherever it wishes. Then NATO ministers will gather in Madrid in July and offer membership on NATO's 50th anniversary in 1999 to the former captive nations of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic...
...injuries were reported. It was the twenty-eighth launch and seventh failure of a Zenit-2 since 1985. For Russia, the disaster is the latest in a string of setbacks, which have included fires on-board Mir and delays in the construction of critical components for the international space station. But TIME's Jeffrey Kluger reports that such difficulties are to be expected from an aging and underfunded space program. "The lack of funding has led to a weaker infrastructure in which the Mir used to be the crown jewel. Now it's the only stone left...
...annual festival is sponsored by the Booksellers of Harvard Square, a non-profit association of local booksellers dedicated to books and literacy. The Boston Phoenix, Bank-Boston and WBUR 90.9 radio station also sponsored the festival. All proceeds will be donated to the Cambridge School Volunteers...
Mail Boxes Etc. has two locations in Cambridge, both on Mass. Ave. The store closer to the Harvard Square T station offers two standard cardboard boxes, the UPS2 and the UPS4. According to Kenneth R. White, a salesperson at Mail Boxes Etc., the UPS2 and UPS4 are best suited for computers and clothing, respectively. But at $5.45 and $3.89 each, the boxes are slightly more expensive. The store also carries the entire gamut of styrofoam stuffing and a wide variety of tape...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Despite Russia?s financial woes and the rickety condition of its Space Station Mir, Russia will be kept on board as a full fledged partner in the construction of the international space station, NASA announced Thursday. Agency officials said Russia would live up to its end of the deal and launch the station's first component, a U.S.-financed service module, in June, 1998, seven months behind schedule. The move comes amid growing concerns about Russia's ability to meet the demands of the station in light of recent troubles at the Russian Space Agency, which have...