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...cranny of the shuttle is stuffed with souvenirs of its last hook-up with Mir. Astronaut Andrew Thomas -- who spent 130 days on the Russian station and brought back a bundle of posters, certificates and even a guitar -- seems to have the perennial tourist's problem of packing in zero gravity: "We've got stuff floating everywhere," he said after rejoining his colleagues Thursday...
Brown had instant name recognition, but also voters liked his support for charter schools, his vow to revive the city's moribund downtown and his "zero tolerance" of crime. "I want people to feel safer," he says. "That's key to people moving here and staying here." Brown has visited nearly 100 neighborhood groups and won endorsements from the Sierra Club to the United Farm Workers...
...seductive Art Deco style promised to do the same. The Arts and Crafts movement had adherents all over Europe, but as the name implies, it was hardly representative of an industrial age. Le Corbusier maintained that this new age deserved a brand-new architecture. "We must start again from zero," he proclaimed...
...rows of houses fronting streets and sidewalks. Downtowns have discovered that combining, not separating, different activities is the key to success. So is the presence of lively residential neighborhoods, old as well as new. Cities have learned that preserving history makes a lot more sense than starting from zero. It has been an expensive lesson, and not one that Le Corbusier intended, but it too is part of his legacy...
...Nobody ever gets an indication that thechances [of getting tenure] are excellent; peopledo get indications that the chances are zero,"Goodman says. "Everybody is always very vague...