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With no single problem common to all the failures, many believe the place to look for answers is less in the guts of the missiles than in the offices of the companies launching them. A wave of defense-industry mergers has resulted in handoffs of businesses ranging from cruise missiles to space stations. Another problem may be brain drain. As the wizened engineers who first got the country into space have retired--or been downsized--they've often been replaced by younger, lower-cost ones. "Lockheed-Martin has been stitched together like Frankenstein's monster," says John Pike, an analyst...
...years now the 27-year-old singer has enjoyed a kind of second-tier, ESPN2 level of fame: he was a member of the teen group Menudo, he once co-starred in Les Miserables on Broadway, has appeared on the ABC soap General Hospital. The cultural wave Martin is riding--Latin pop--we must admit, is also not an entirely new phenomenon. Salsa, rumba, mambo and other Latin musical forms have made inroads on American pop music--Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, Gloria Estefan, Ritchie Valens, Los Lobos, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Machito, Willie Colon, Tito Puente and many, many others have...
Still, some longtime aficionados fear that the new pop Latin wave could wash away important cultural connections. Esmerelda Santiago, author of the memoir When I Was Puerto Rican, says the current crop of singers being pushed by the major labels could use some skin-tone diversity. She feels the artists who are being promoted to superstardom mostly look Anglo, leaving the darker performers behind. "It's fascinating to me, and a little upsetting, that this is still the white face of the Caribbean," says Santiago. "I'm sure that there are equally talented and gifted artists out there whose facial...
According to University Professor Cornel R. West '74, "[Harvard's Living Wage Campaign] is the most significant wave of student activism since the 1960's. It shatters the stereotypes that young students are not concerned with what is right and just." Students have organized and participated in rallies and campaigns to eradicate poverty wages at Harvard because, according to the Harvard Living Wage Campaign web site, "you can't eat prestige." But even if it can't proffer the nourishment that a living wage could, it still never hurts to have prestige on your side...
...world's biggest what? Amazon.com announced today that it's buying 35 percent of Homegrocer.com, a Seattle-area online grocer with national plans. The $42.5 million-dollar investment is just the latest splash in an ongoing wave of expansion plans that include eBay-style auctions, Pets.com and a web pharmacy called Drugstore.com...