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...group of aerospace engineers say there's a "pre-owned" alternative to the proposed $40 billion space station. They are calling on NASA to refurbish and deploy the backup SKYLAB workshop that was built but never used. The original model orbited the earth in 1973-74, and its understudy is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. The experts say launching the venerable Skylab -- which they claim could easily handle the research -- would cost a mere $4 billion...
Many Eastern European leaders said they feared that support for privatization was waning as citizens were starting to bear the burden of reform, according to Robert P. Beschel, a consultant for Project Liberty who attended the workshop...
...think that's a wonderful tradition of public service," says Forsgard, who has run community service projects herself in the past. Those include a kite-making workshop at a public library in her hometown...
...furrowed fields 25 miles southeast of Moscow -- behind concrete walls, barbed wire and a sign reading FORBIDDEN ZONE -- sprawls the Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute. Employing 10,000 scientists and technicians, the research center combines the theoretical study of aerodynamics with practical experiments on airplanes and spacecraft. In one hangar-size workshop, stress- testing sensors cling like barnacles to prototypes of the new MiG-31 fighter and the next generation of Soviet civilian airliners, the Tu-204 and Il-114. Nearby is the T-128 transonic wind tunnel, where the space shuttle Buran and the Energiya booster rocket were tested with airstreams...
...wave of proudly downscale fare, including Roseanne, The Simpsons and Married . . . with Children. Campy hobnobber Robin Leach of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous has been replaced in the hearts of viewers by chatty Jeff Smith of The Frugal Gourmet and nonaerobic carpenter Norm Abram of The New Yankee Workshop. Love stories, melodramas and family films have taken over Hollywood. Home Alone, Ghost and Pretty Woman, for example, collectively reaped more than $500 million in total revenues last year. Get set for an onslaught of films about people waking up and smelling the coffee...