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...HIGH-TECH AID FOR BOSNIA...
...most tellingly, many people who worked under his jurisdiction: he raised no money for the museum; he bullied and intimidated museum staff; he curbed free speech by forbidding museum employees to speak about the museum without his approval; and he violated their right to privacy by hi-tech scavenging for mail not addressed...
...thoroughly proven electronics and other devices, figuring that a single failure could endanger an entire satellite full of instruments. That is precisely what engineers think happened to the Mars Observer last summer, when a defective transistor evidently killed a $1 billion space probe. With only a few high-tech instruments per satellite, any failures would affect only a small piece of the program...
...just a box filled with lights and wires -- and the NASA staffers knew it. Agency employees and contractors were allegedly bribed to help book the box on a shuttle mission. According to the Houston Chronicle, a manager at NASA's Life Sciences Directorate and an employee at GB Tech, a Martin Marietta subcontractor, have been implicated in the scheme. Coming on top of NASA's other misfortunes in recent years, the disclosures were disheartening. "It gives morale a good, solid kick in the stomach," says Larry Friesen, a former engineer for Lockheed, a NASA contractor...
...apple of temptation came to Williamson County, Texas, last week, but the county commission didn't bite. Earlier this year Apple Computer, the California-based high-tech firm, proposed to build an $80 million office complex near the town of Round Rock. The five-member county commission was delighted. The project would bring as many as 1,450 new jobs, with a potential contribution to the local economy of $300 million by the year 2000. Then the commission learned that Apple extends health benefits to the live-in partners of unmarried employees, whether straight or gay. Jobs or no jobs...