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Kohl said yesterday the coronagraph is expected to be launched in an unmanned sounding rocket in November to an altitude of 100 kilometers where it will gather and simultaneously transmit information...
Despite the hostility directed at the country from abroad?and the anger burning from within?white South Africa remains curiously peaceful. The street tensions and stonings within its removed black townships?even the ongoing massive school boycott by 200,000 students in Soweto?fail to transmit more than a ripple to what Novelist Nadine Gordimer (A World of Strangers) calls the "dreadful calm" of white society. So distant do such events seem, in fact, that most whites only learn of them from their newspapers. Of Johannesburg's white population of 600,000, precious few have ever set foot in Soweto...
...nonetheless, important to understand this most recent use of symbolism for what it was: a cosmetic means of finessing the absence of a comprehensive urban policy. Carter is simply not ready to transmit his compassion into concrete initiatives; he is not fully committed to helping rebuild the cities--the visual image of him in the Bronx notwithstanding. Such was clear from something the President said during the visit: that there is no need to search for solutions beyond programs already proposed or in existence...
...patients at another Johannesburg hospital also harbored the new strain. Though some showed no symptoms of pneumonia, others became ill and one patient died. The danger, says Epidemiologist Fraser, is that patients' relatives and hospital staff members can carry the bacteria in their throats and remain well, yet transmit the infection to others who will become seriously ill. Thus a seemingly healthy air traveler from Johannesburg could, within a day, carry the virulent new pneumococci to any part of the world...
...janitor, his job still means stability." On the basis of studies, he adds: "Typically, those who can get established with a job in an urban environment can pass this stability on to their kids. Those who can't are likely to pass on more than just poverty. They also transmit poor educational opportunities and a sense of hopelessness...