Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will travel on a highly elliptical orbit for five to seven years. AXAF will observe the universe in fifty times more detail than any previous X-ray telescope. The satellite combines the ability to make sharp images while measuring precisely the energies of X-rays coming from cosmic sources...
While our younger brothers and sisters are lounging by the pool or even off at investment camp, Japanese high schoolers are still in school--and will be until July 20, when they receive a 40-day recess, their longest of the year. Students, dressed in uniforms, often travel to school seven days a week, preparing for the ultimate test of adolescence: university entrance examinations. While President Clinton has proposed making the "13th and 14th years of education as universal as high school" in America, Japanese students are fighting their way to a college education--enrolling in "crammer colleges" if necessary...
...Starr, don't shed a tear; TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak says that the dogged prosecutor was just being thorough: "The part of Starr's case that Foster was involved in is essentially closed already. This was just one last road he needed to travel down." One might imagine that Starr, as a lawyer, might be a little relieved himself -- just as long as Bruce Lindsey keeps breathing...
FREEWAY RIDE Give 'em a break. To help cars avoid local construction, Transportation chairman Bud Shuster wants drivers to travel toll free on the Penn. Turnpike in his district. $3 million...
...Beijing is paying close attention to this issue. Its leaders' focus should be directed not to the D.P.P. but to the people in Taiwan. If they keep trying to intimidate us and equate everything we do with so-called Taiwan independence--including foreign travel by our leadership and our participation in international relations--then our people will be alienated. That will lead to a greater desire for independence...