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...explosion released a cloud of toxic vapor that left nearly 60 base employees suffering from eye and skin irritations. The more lasting damage may be to the U.S. space program. The loss of a second Titan left the U.S. with no reliable way to launch heavy payloads into orbit. The Pentagon is already reduced to operating with only one reconnaissance satellite, rather than the two that military planners deem necessary. If that single eye in the sky should malfunction, U.S. intelligence in space would be blinded...
...legal cloud that has hung over U.S. tobacco companies for years lifted slightly last week. In Philadelphia, a federal appeals court ruled that Philip Morris, the Liggett Group, the Loews Corp. and Loews Theatres did not have to compensate Antonio Cipollone for the death of his wife Rose, a pack-a-day smoker who died of lung cancer in 1984. The court's reason: cigarette-package health warnings that are mandatory under federal law protect the tobacco giants from claims that they fail to provide adequate notice of smoking's hazards. The decision in the liability lawsuit may affect almost...
...reportedly told city councilors last winter that the University is facing a potentially massive financial squeeze due to budget cuts in the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction act. John Shattuck, Harvard's vice president for government and public affairs, calls Gramm-Rudman reductions "a large cloud hanging over the financing of higher education." And "in that context," the University official says, "it would be increasingly difficult for Harvard to raise money for...things it would otherwise like to fund...
...focus the question by meditating upon the 2,700 pairs of shoes that Imelda Marcos left behind in Malacanang Palace. A person's vision may cloud a little as he tries to peer into the shadows of Swiss bank vaults or into the double-bottomed luggage of the Marcos real estate deals. But the image of the 5,400 shoes of Imelda Marcos makes the metaphysics vivid...
...comet on March 9, supplementing Vega 1's findings. Giotto's mission four days later was to swoop to about 300 miles of the nucleus, shooting close-up pictures as it passed. Precision pathfinding was less important for the Japanese craft. Suisei, designed to study the huge hydrogen gas cloud surrounding Halley's, was targeted to fly by the comet at a distance of almost 100,000 miles. Sakigake, studying the solar wind so that scientists can determine the wind's effect on the comet's tail, would not come closer than 4.4 million miles from the nucleus...