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...President Corazon Aquino with little room for herself, both figuratively and literally. A steady string of tasks, from selecting a Cabinet and ordering up various commissions to greeting diplomats and receiving journalists, crowded her time from the moment the Marcos family fled. Malacanang Palace proved unsuitable to receive the stream of visitors because Marcos loyalists had seeded the grounds with booby traps and looters had laid waste to the living quarters. Aquino was thus forced to continue operating out of the Manila building owned by her family, which, with its cramped waiting rooms, had barely sufficed as a campaign headquarters...
...trouble started when the jet stream, which usually carries water-laden air from the Gulf of Alaska toward Canada, dipped south toward Hawaii, then headed for the coast with a burden of subtropical moisture. Like a conveyor belt gone haywire, it pitched one storm after another across the beleaguered West. In Northern California, 32,000 people were evacuated, more than 7,000 homes damaged or destroyed, and thousands of acres of farmland flooded, including some of the Napa Valley vineyards...
Sanford Dornbusch, a sociology professor at Stanford, agrees that mainstream sociology was not at all well-defined. "One person's main-stream is another person's creek," he says...
Even the celebrities on the blue-ribbon commission charged with investigating the explosion of space shuttle Challenger were upstaged last week by a steady stream of disclosures. First, the New York Times revealed that NASA internal documents had long ago warned about problems with the crucial O rings, the two giant synthetic-rubber washers that seal each joint between the booster-rocket segments. Next, an article in Aviation Week & Space Technology spelled out in extraordinary detail how the starboard booster had caused Challenger's external liquid-fuel tank to explode. Then, NASA released pictures showing a mysterious puff of black...
...have changed his mind about Marcos and the way the election was conducted. He may have been persuaded by the stream of moderate-to-conservative Republicans on Capitol Hill who are lining up against Marcos and would hold up U.S. aid to the Philippines...