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Safely in space, the crew performed a round-the-clock schedule of experiments, including observation of flares on the sun's surface and study of the behavior of liquid helium at zero gravity. Crowed Mission Scientist Eugene Urban: "We have been able to assure ourselves that the science return . . . will be very high." BOSTON Black Chief for an Ailing System...
...plan. In Rochester, Wilson boosted student test scores and reduced absenteeism, while trimming $8 million from the budget. When fistfights broke out at school basketball games, he won plaudits by banning spectators for three weeks. In his application letter for the Boston job, Wilson called himself "the most qualified urban educator in the U.S." Now he will have a chance to prove it. High school illiteracy now runs 30% in Boston, and the daily absentee rate is an astonishing...
...vogue is not limited to the slavishly chic urban precincts of loft dwellers, San Pellegrino sippers and would-be Rimbauds. Black is now the color of choice for photographic and high-priced electronic equipment of every kind. Sony's new, "ultimate" Trinitron TV, called the XBR, is advertised as a black cube with a nearly black screen sitting on a black pedestal. Miniskirts and sofas in black leather are pandemic. Wristwatches are black, good china is black. Even telephones are once again fashionably black. Sterling cigarettes, a new brand, come in hard black packets...
...city of Chongqing appears to some visitors to resemble the superstructure of a large ship. Situated more than 800 miles from the sea and more than 900 miles from the power center of Peking, Chongqing could easily have come to resemble a rusted hulk aground in an urban backwater, despite its brief fame as Chungking, China's capital city during the war with Japan. Forty years later, however, few other cities in China are undergoing such momentous change and rapid growth...
NASA officials, with their normal tumble of superlatives, deemed the mission a "great success." Said the chief mission scientist, Eugene Urban: "Scientists will be busy for years working with these data." Yet a few gremlins still lurk. Three times in the past year, the launch procedures have resulted in near disaster. And though Discovery waits eagerly on deck, ready for a late August launch, NASA remains way behind schedule. --By Natalie Angier. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Kennedy Space Center