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Like her sister astronauts, Ride has mostly been treated like one of the guys Says she: "Crip won't even open a door for me anymore." Ever since the mission earn selection was announced 14 months ago, Ride and her crewmates have spent most of their waking hours together. The fifth member of the group, Norman Thagard, 39, another mission specialist, was added only last December. As a physician, he will investigate a nagging difficulty of space travel: the initial queasiness, or "space adaptation syndrome," that seems to afflict about 50% of all astronauts in their first few days...
...girls known as Crippettes), because a member is initiated only after furnishing evidence that he has physically injured somebody. In what is close to a war zone, ghetto residents often eat and sleep on the floor to avoid the stray bullets whizzing through their windows. Joe, 17, a former Crip who has gone straight because he is tired of "hustlin'," says he was always stalking a rival gang member or a potential robbery victim. "Whenever I was shootin' [had a gun], I had someone in mind. If I couldn...
...Next year I'll have a car and a pad." But in the next breath, he talks of his loyalty to the gang, the fact that if he were to quit, "there's more chance of those left getting downed [killed] quick. Besides, I live in Crip neighborhood-I'd still get messed with when I got to my pad. The only way to stop is to get out of Compton, and that's something that's not easy...
...transit workers' strike that crip pled Manhattan last month was clearly illegal. And the Transit Authority's will ingness to end the walkout by agreeing to pay an estimated $60 million in wage boosts and fringe benefits was hardly more correct. New York's tough Condon-Wadlin Act not only forbids strikes by public employees but prohibits pay raises to strikers for three years after they go back to work. Still, most New Yorkers - from Mayor John Lindsay to the harried commuters - were willing to forgive and forget...
...students shocked the entire state by cheating on a final exam. The ingrates' defense was that everyone knew that Harland's archaeology class was not a "normal" course, in which a grade had to be earned honestly. Harland was dismayed. "If it was such a crip, why did anyone have to cheat?" he cried...