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Goldin's goal since he arrived in 1992 has been to make NASA a shuttle customer rather than a designer-owner-operator. To ease this transition, he pledged $1 billion in development funds to the winner of a design contest that pitted Lockheed Martin against Rockwell and McDonnell Douglas...
...music stores to the postliterate generation, it spawned T shirts, posters and a stage adaptation that has been produced in Edinburgh, London and San Francisco. The film, with its attendant top-of-the-pops CD and published screenplay, quickly became Britain's second-biggest-ever homemade box-office winner (after Four Weddings and a Funeral, to which it acts as a bitter antidote, a strychnine chaser). The consensus out-of-competition hit at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Trainspotting invades U.S. theaters next week...
Willard Van Orman Quine, Pierce professor of philosophy emeritus, was named the winner of the 1996 Inamori Foundation's Kyoto Prize in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences last Friday...
Malone's programs have indeed been used as models by other states and the federal government. As recognition for his record of innovation in public service, Malone was recently named winner of a Pathfinder Award, along with Hillary Rodham Clinton...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: After spending $3 billion on just eight space flights a year, NASA officials have decided to let the free market trim the budget for them. On Tuesday, they announced Lockheed Martin as the winner of a "bake-off" to develop America's new spaceship, the first redesign since the space shuttle project began in 1972. Lockheed, which will conduct unmanned test flights of its triangle-shaped craft in 1999, will receive just $900 million to develop the new X-33 craft, leaving most of the financial risk to the contractor, and eventually to investors. The three companies...