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...washed ashore near Cape Canaveral, almost 11 years after the explosion that killed all seven aboard. A beachcomber named Spider dragged both bits of wreckage out of the surf near Cocoa Beach, 20 miles south of Kennedy Space Center. By identifying the serial numbers on pieces of attached thermal tile, NASA was able to confirm the two pieces of metal, one 6 by 15 feet, the other 1 by 5 feet, were from the doomed shuttle. Challenger flew for 73 seconds after lifting off the pad at the Cape when a leak in one of the shuttle's solid fuel...
...office also serves as a clearing house for legal information that international students need, including lists of visa restrictions and instruction on how to tile American tax forms...
...portfolio. Also unsold is Chaumet, a world-famous French jeweler, which has racked up millions of dollars in losses. Other flops include the Carvel ice-cream chain and New York Department Stores of Puerto Rico, disposed of last year at a substantial loss. A huge disappointment has been Color Tile, America's largest chain of floor-covering stores. The company lost $46.3 million last year and was close to bankruptcy until Investcorp and other investors pumped in $30 million in August. Kirdar acknowledges that many deals have not worked out as hoped, but cites the bank's willingness to work...
Gillis must make a choice: one direction leads to ignominy and independence; the other leads to the tile floors of the palazzo where Valentino tangoed. With each step, Joe becomes more deeply mired...
...being dismantled not by foreign investors but by Vietnamese entrepreneurs. Established hundreds of years ago by craftsmen who moved to the banks of the Red River to be near the markets of the capital, Hanoi's ``36 streets'' district was once home to 60 temples, shaded by the red-tile roofs of old shop-front ``tube houses''--so called because many, as deep as 50 m, are only 2 m to 3 m wide. Now the neighborhood is becoming dominated by boutiques, bars and ``mini- hotels'' of cheap cement and glass. ``The ancient city is being destroyed,'' says Mayor Hoang...