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Anticipating charges that they have abandoned collectivization, one of the basic tenets of Communism, Chinese agricultural officials hastily explain that the responsibility system is not really a departure from collective agriculture because the state-owned land cannot be bought or sold by the farmers. Still, China's bold new...
As for the flight itself, NASA spokesmen noted that even in their abbreviated tour around the earth, Engle and Truly had still managed to perform most of their work load, especially the key experiment: trying out for the first time in zero-gravity the shuttle's $100 million Canadian...
The preachy, heavy-handed script (a Pat Boone-style morality lesson in which it is other countries which cause problems, never the good ol' U.S. of A.) is doubly disappointing in that the show not only had the opportunity to evoke the spirit of the sixties, but the resources to...
Then there are the differences between the two productions--the most interesting aspect of the experiment, to be sure, but a source of infinite confusion all the same. Samuels' production, big and ornate, is patterned after a 1940s movie, along the lines of The Philadelphia Story or Bringing Up Baby...
Finally, the ocean color experiment (OCE) scanned ocean areas for traces of chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants. The presence of chlorophyll would indicate the location of marine plants and large concentrations of fish, information of great interest to commercial fisheries.