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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Confucius wrote that "truly great music is always simple in movement." Which may explain why Andy Williams is the hottest Western vocalist in China. Or maybe it's because Williams crooned the sound track to Dancing on Ice, a 15-min. skating documentary that has been shown again and again and then several times more on Chinese TV. Ever since, people have been downright bullish in China's shops about his Love Story and other ancient chestnuts. It is not just ideogrammatic titles like Moon River that strike familiar chords in Chinese hearts. "His voice and style more closely resemble...
...with the exception of Earl Weaver and a few others, do not know what they are doing, a fact that makes anti-James feeling somewhat understandable. Baseball research is in its infancy, and much of it is slapdash. But the numbers suggest that the sabermetricians are on the right track and that baseball faces the galling prospect of falling in line with provincial researchers like Bill James. Who knows? James may yet get to throw out the first ball at a world series...
Meanwhile NASA's paper work continued to track the problem. On Dec. 17, 1982, the joint was moved to the agency's "criticality 1" list, meaning that it lacked a reliable backup part and that if the joint failed it would lead to "loss of mission and crew." While that presumably should have alerted NASA's flight officials to the urgency of the matter, there was a complication: fully 748 parts of the shuttle carried the same criticality-1 designation, including 114 on the booster motors. None was given any priority in urgency, so none stood out as demanding...
...will get into spirituals if you let him." As he talked the blind man gave directions. Going down a dirt road, after a certain time had passed, if he did not feel the car rounding a curve, a wrong turn had been made--the same for crossing a railroad track, or a bridge, or descending a hill. His navigational skills were dead on the money...
...Damn if I remember," laughs Stephenson--who has no trouble at all remembering the name of the "track star" who beat him out for the honor of being the featured undergraduate speaker at the 300th's convocation ceremony...