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...Even as it becomes the most expensive boondoggle in history, the proposed station still has no clearly defined mission. It's an open secret in Washington that this project amounts to welfare checks for would-be weapons scientists in the former Soviet Union; less widely known is how important it is to former Cold War warriors back in the U.S. "This is a way to keep idle hands busy in the domestic aerospace industry, too," says Kluger. All of which hardly sits well with NASA administrator Daniel Goldin's vision for "faster, cheaper, better" space missions. And researchers who could...
TIME contributor Leon Jaroff has long been a star to his colleagues and readers. We're therefore pleased to announce that he is being officially recognized as a celestial object. On Aug. 8 the International Astronomical Union voted to change the name of the asteroid previously known as 1992WY4 to the 7829 Jaroff. Eleanor Helin, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who discovered the asteroid in 1992, recommended the name to honor Jaroff's "well-researched, insightful articles and essays on scientific subjects" and his efforts to "draw attention to the issue of NEOs [near earth...
Maybe we do live in an age of miracles. Here's one: after a 40-year conflict that held the entire world in a state of terror about the possibility of nuclear annihilation, the U.S. and the former Soviet Union reconciled peacefully. And here's another: a commercial American television network has produced a 24-part series about this epoch that is serious, thorough and absorbing. CNN's Cold War, which debuts Sept. 27, serves as an example of documentary television at its best. Watching it, one begins to understand how the stamina of the U.S., the self-deception...
...knows the ins and outs of negotiation," said Domene M. Williams, president of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). "She's going to know what unions are about and that's a huge bonus...
Roberts arrives at a time of tranquility for the Office of Human Resources (OHR). Two of Harvard's largest unions--HUCTW and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)--recently approved contract extensions and amendments during the period without a director...