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Wachner's mission to Maine last week struck a more compassionate note. She even pledged that Warnaco would retain an equity stake in Hathaway if necessary to help the local investors swing a deal. Workers applauded the news as their last, best hope. But former Governor McKernan has no experience in apparel and rates his chances of keeping the plant going no better than fifty-fifty. Wachner does have experience. That's why she's getting...
Duncan Steel, an Australian astronomer, has calculated that if the asteroid had struck Earth, it would have hit at some 58,000 m.p.h. The resulting explosion, scientists estimate, would have been in the 3,000-to-12,000-megaton range. That, says astronomer Eugene Shoemaker, a pioneer asteroid and comet hunter, "is like taking all of the U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons, putting them in one pile and blowing them...
...recent months she has reported on the charter school movement and the controversy over bilingual curriculums. In this week's issue she writes about a new full-service approach to public schooling called CoZi. Visiting Bowling Park and Sycamore Hills, two schools profiled in her story, Hornblower was struck by their can-do spirit. "No one was talking about grades," she says, "only about helping children any way they could...
...affairs show Witness sought an interview. Her Australian agent asked holiday rates: $30,000 for one hour. That's Witness's story. Ken Smith, proprietor of Schiffer's Australian agency, dismisses it as a "pie-in-the-sky rumor." So no interview--but Melbourne businessman Jean Mazloun says he struck a $280,000 deal with Schiffer's New York management for her to appear at the Australian designer-collections parade. "And it was worth every cent," says Mazloun. Schiffer's New York agent, like his Aussie counterpart, swears the model's fee was nowhere near the quoted figure. "I wish...
MANAMA, Bahrain: Bahrain's ruling Suni government struck back at Shiite dissidents Monday, arresting 29 for allegedly attempting to overthrow the ruling Khalifa family with the help of Iran. "For nearly two years Bahrain's government has been experiencing political opposition and unrest from the country's Shiite majority," reports TIME's Scott MacLeod. "The Shiites have been demanding more political and economic representation from the ruling Sunni monarchy." Bahrain's Information Minister Mohammed al Muttawa said the plotters were part of an Iranian-backed group that wants to install a Shiite Muslim government modeled on Tehran's. Despite protests...