Word: stations
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From the Kennedy Space Center and the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome, powerful shuttles and unmanned rockets lift off week after week, bearing construction modules and fuel supplies to a giant space station in earth orbit. There, skilled workers have been assembling the ship that will take the first humans to Mars. After more than a year of construction, the million- pound, ungainly looking spacecraft is ready. With a crew of eight, it separates from the space station and heads for Mars, following the Hohmann ellipse, a space trajectory that may one day be as familiar as a great-circle...
Whether Hispanic sounds will ever compete on the charts with pop is questionable. "I don't see Latin music ever being mainstream," says Frank Flores, general manager of the Latino station WJIT in New York City. "Our influence will seep into the mainstream, but it's still going to be Spanish music." Some Latin musicians are worried that every step toward Anglo society is a step away from their culture's roots; one player's progressivism is another's sellout. "The Latin market is our bread and butter, and we can't ignore them," says Raul Alfonso of Hansel...
While a student at the St. Marks School of Texas, McAlester worked at his school's radio station, playing a combination of classical and local new wave music; he says he would like to get involved with WHRB when he arrives in Cambridge. And, while he freely admits that he is not "Mr. Sportsman", he says he does enjoy a pick-up game of basketball every now and then, and says he might even like to join an intramural team. McAlester says, at this point he is unsure what he will concentrate, but says that French history or literature might...
...academic reputation also attracted her to the campus. "The college itself is beautiful, and the location is great," says the potential philosophy concentrator, "but what really impressed me was the variety of courses offered." Simpson says that she may also work as a deejay for the campus radio station, WHRB...
...half its privately held land has been sold, mostly by farmers, to water- ranching interests. County Manager Neta Bowen decries the loss of tax base and employment: "When farmlands are retired in a community that depends solely on agriculture, what happens to the corner grocery? The cafe? The gas station? The local...