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...minutes into his interview at Boeing last spring, engineer John Tanner, 52, was offered a job. Tanner, a 33-year veteran of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ultimately turned down two other companies, and now develops landing gear for Boeing near Seattle. "I wanted to be where the action was," he says. Boeing also hired his wife Cheri, 45, another NASA veteran and engineer. As a bonus, Boeing arranged for Cheri to complete the one course she needed for a master's degree...
...other businessmen will next month open the Rocky Mountain Manufacturing Academy, a trade-school adjunct of the state's community-college system. Housed in the former Lowry Air Force Base (which once employed hundreds of civilians) near Denver, the $5.5 million facility will make use of cast-off gear like lathes from the old Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant. Typical subjects: welding, robotics and laser technology...
...racking sobs of the bereaved that proved unforgettable. AIDS grief has to be rationed, or the tears can become infinite; those quiltgoers had allowed themselves to remember. The sorrow was undercut only by a leather couple I saw under some nearby elms, two fellows in full bondage gear. The stern master lightly flogged his willingly shackled slave with a riding crop. "Oh, just stop," the slave complained. It had been a very long...
...down two American civilian planes last February: THIS IS NOT COJONES; THIS IS COWARDICE. But Albright's bulldog style is not admired nearly as much abroad. When word of her appointment reached a black-tie U.N. dinner, there was no international equivalent of high fives. Could she, muttered colleagues, gear down her confrontational style enough to succeed in the delicate art of nation-to-nation negotiation? French diplomats, who tangled with her over her aggressive campaign to dump U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, were pointedly ordered to speak of her new appointment only in positive terms...
...very surprised in your recent coverage of new electronic and computer gear [TECHNOLOGY BUYER'S GUIDE, Nov. 25] not to read about any of the dozens of technologies that Apple has put in its customers' hands. While I know that you can't list everything, it does make me wonder what other first-rate equipment your evaluation team omitted. And, of course...why? PAYTON FLETCHER Bad Schwalbach, Germany Via E-mail...