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NIGHTLIFE: London's eclectic West End offerings are unrivaled. A play that entrances its audience for 90 minutes without a break is "Art," a three-man tour-de-force focused on a modern painting that is, well, only white. When evening shows let out, crowds line the streets of the theater district, many headed for the restaurants in the area. The quintessential after-theatre hotspot is the Ivy, where a star or two often add to the buzz in the air. The classic London dance club is the enormous Ministry of Sound, near the Elephant & Castle underground station south...
...three-man teams lurk outside the Oval Office so much that White House officials barely notice them after a while. They look like any network news crew--a sound man, maybe a camerawoman and a guy toting a portable light--but they don't work for CBS or NBC. Instead they toil long hours behind the scenes, roaming from the East Room to the West Wing, waiting for Bill Clinton to arrive, shake hands and say a few words. They turn their tapes over to the White House Communications Office, which uses the videos for p.r., as favors for Administration...
...close encounter wasn't quite as bad as June's supply-ship bust-up, but it did send Mir's three-man crew scurrying into their escape capsule, where they remained until the satellite shot overhead at a hasty 17,500 miles per hour. Russian space officials said the satellite came within 500 yards of plowing into the cosmonaut's front room...
...computer is up and running again. But this isn't like booting up a Mac; the three-man crew still have to spend some time reacquainting it with each of the station's automated systems...
...turnaround from its last, aborted mission, the revamped Columbia performed "in an absolutely exemplary manner, and I could not be happier." The intense focus of interest in the Canaveral press room, though, was the darkened and disabled Mir, at that moment spinning crazily in orbit with its three-man crew huddled in the escape capsule. The two missions, and the two national space programs today provided a stark contrast in performance that members of Congress are sure to note...