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Busiest Baby Season As the tick, tick, tick of the biological clock sounded ever louder, aging baby boomers got down to the business of having a baby boomlet of their own. Among Hollywood's hottest couples who turned up around town with baby in tow: Patti Scialfa and Bruce Springsteen; Sigourney Weaver and director Jim Simpson; Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw...
Most Disappointing Peek Through a Looking Glass If you get the wrong prescription at the local vision center, you can just go back and have it changed. Not so for NASA, whose incorrect prescription is spinning around the earth in the Hubble Space Telescope. Because a mirror was ground to the wrong shape, the space agency was saddled with a $1.5 billion instrument that performs far below expectations...
Lists have been around forever. Noah undoubtedly used one to check off the lucky couples on his boat. Moses went up a mountain and came down with one. Man is an inveterate listmaker. I list, therefore I am. To define is to list. A Partial List of Lists (and the list is endless...
...when Michael Williams, a mid-level Education official in charge of civil rights, announced a startling reinterpretation of existing federal anti-discrimination laws. College scholarships exclusively earmarked for minority students are illegal, he declared, and institutions that offer them may face a cutoff of federal funds. Colleges and universities around the country immediately set off alarm bells and sent the Administration scrambling to clarify a policy that Williams had apparently enunciated without consulting the White House...
...Around the Cabinet table, the new Secretary can be expected to provide calm, deliberate counsel. "He is totally at ease with power," says Marty Connors, executive director of the Southern Republican Exchange, a Birmingham think tank founded by Alexander. Equally important, Alexander and his wife are longtime social intimates of the Bushes who get along with the First Family on a first-name basis. Good choice, George...