On Sept. 24, a company called Space Imaging–a partnership between America’s space giant Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp. and some other investors–launched the first of its Ikonos satellites, capable of seeing details as small as a meter across. The pictures it takes will, in principle, be sold to whoever wants them. Space Imaging has plans for more such satellites, as do rival firms like EarthWatch and OrbImage. While relatively coarse imagery from nonmilitary satellites launched by governments has been available for a long time, these commercial services will offer a new world of detail....

According to a statement from the Australian Professional Football Clubs Association (APFCA) - the representative body of the A-League clubs, FFA’s allocation of $3.25million per club is below 50 per cent of “direct revenue” produced by the competition. Club chairmen and CEOs met with FFA CEO David Gallop on Tuesday and “unanimously rejected as wholly inadequate” the governing body’s proposal. A-League clubs demand more power from FFA APFCA and Adelaide United chairman Greg Griffin said: “We have worked in good faith for the last eighteen months to achieve a distribution that will deliver a sustainable future for the league....

Can this be the age of globalization on one of the world’s most important economic frontiers? Since the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect in 1994, Mexico has become the United States’ second biggest trading partner (after Canada). Ninety percent of the goods flowing between the two countries travel on trucks, and on Jan. 1, NAFTA was to allow truckers to make deliveries anywhere on the continent. But the Clinton administration has blocked the provision, arguing that Mexican trucks are unsafe....

NAGORSKI: What is it that keeps drawing you back to Africa? KAPUSCINSKI: I am fascinated by history in the making. Any history–of Europe or the world–is always dramatic and bloody in the beginning. The same is true for Afri-can history: it is being born in pain, suffering and conflict. I’m fascinated not only because I know Africa and consider it my second home, but also because Africa is undergoing profound changes....

So when rumors last week had AOL in talks to acquire CompuServe, it was like the guys at Animal House were thinking of taking over the Honors Society. It’s unclear whether the culture-clashing deal will really happen: AOL dismisses the talk as “market rumors,” and H&R Block, which owns 80 percent of CompuServe’s stock, says only that it’s discussing a “business combination” with an unnamed suitor-and observers say competitors from Microsoft to AT&T might enter the fray....

“I can imagine people [in the West] not wanting to commit ground forces, but there is so much exaggeration about the capabilities of the Yugoslav Army,” says Milan Vego, a former Yugoslav officer who teaches large-formation warfare at the U.S. Naval War College. According to Vego and other experts, the Yugoslavs don’t deserve their reputation for fierce resistance against Nazi Germany. Hitler’s army overran Yugoslavia in a matter of days and held it with a handful of divisions, manned mostly by reservists, until the Russians drove them out in 1944....

Kotova hasn’t always been so lucky. Her father, virtuoso double-bassist Ivan Kotov, died unexpectedly when she was 15. Four years later she left behind the prestigious Moscow Conservatory, and her mother, to study abroad. She traveled first to Cologne and then to the United States, where she won a scholarship to Yale University. Short of money and hoping to earn enough for a new cello (she’d had to return her old one to the Soviet government), she stopped by an open call at New York City’s Ford Modeling Agency....

Survivors of last year’s death march from the overrun Muslim enclave of Srebrenica placed the general at the scene of some hideous crimes, issuing orders that led to the slaughter of thousands of Muslim prisoners. One escapee even said he saw Mladic watching a mass execution (NEWSWEEK, April 15). Mladic insists he committed no war crimes. “I am just a man who defends his people,” he said last year. Denying that his men raped thousands of Muslim women, he sneered that “we Serbs are too picky” to do such a thing....

Yes, I stayed home from work today. For the second day in a row. I have my excuses, of course. Our three kids had their second snow day in a row and someone had to drive them to sledding, snow football, the movies and the pizza place. The bus I usually take to New York City from Montclair, N. J. was being diverted for some reason. That meant that a 12-mile trip into the city would have probably taken an hour-and-a-half instead of 35 minutes....

Green Hills is one of a new breed of retirement communities being built on or near college campuses. Last month, the Marriott Corp. dedicated the Colonnades at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The nonprofit Kendal Corp. opened Kendal at Hanover near Dartmouth in July, and hopes to break ground for Kendal at Oberlin next year. Plans are in the works for more Kendal facilities near Lehigh and Cornell. Some such communities were initiated by university officials; others have no formal link to the schools beyond attracting alumni and retired faculty as residents....

That day of reckoning has finally come in Detroit: this year alone, 1 million leased cars will pour back into the marketplace, and automakers expect an additional 1.5 million in 1995. But put those predictions of Armageddon on hold-there’s plenty of gold left in leasing. Analysts and even automakers still worry about the long run. “If leasing goes on at this rate, eventually someone has to pay the piper,” says analyst Joseph Phillippi of Lehman Brothers....

TYRE: How bad is the situation at ABC? LYNE: Panic is overstating it, but there is genuine concern at ABC and at all the networks about the shrinking audience for network television. That said, I believe it is possible to get large numbers of people to watch a show. If it is compelling, it pulls you back week after week. ABC’s audience is off 21 percent from last season, and it has fallen from first to fourth place among young-adult viewers....

Cheney came prepared for more than just an amiable chat. The friendly forum was an ideal place for the vice president to launch a political trial balloon on a controversial topic: nuclear power. Appointed by the president to find fixes for the country’s energy problems, Cheney has echoed Bush’s familiar calls for oil and coal exploration and natural-gas pipelines. But when Simpson asked him what the White House planned to do about rising carbon dioxide levels, Cheney had an unexpected answer ready....

He always seemed an improbable companion for a woman who epitomized style and grace. Just what did she see in this portly, balding diamond merchant who shared her Fifth Avenue apartment, yet remained married to a wife of more than 40 years? He had none of Jack Kennedy’s rakish charm, and his wealth, while substantial, did not approach Aristotle Onassis’s fortune. Yet those who knew Mrs. Onassis came to understand that in Tempelsman – ““M....

Geisel’s first attempt at writing for children barely made it into bookstores. In 1937, 27 publishers rejected “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” before Vanguard finally accepted it. The book, inspired by a street in Geisel’s hometown of Springfield, Mass., was a huge success, and most of Dr. Seuss’s 47 children’s works have been in print ever since. At the time of his death, more than 100 million copies had been sold in 18 languages–an enviable record for an author in any genre....

The answer was the Second Opium War, a British invasion of China, the sacking Peking and finally the forced legalization of opium exports to China. The economic and territorial concessions wrung from the humiliated emperor were not forgotten. Now, taking a page from Britain’s playbook, China has turned the tables and is fostering an opioid epidemic in the United States. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid which is both cheaper to manufacture and easier to transport than heroin....

Rodriguez hit a three-run home run in the third inning of Wednesday afternoon’s 4-2 win over the Royals. MORE: A-Rod, MLB’s successful anti-hero | A-Rod’s career has been one long boo With that, he now has 1,995 RBIs for his career. That number either ties him with Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig for third on MLB’s official RBI list or moves him past the Yankees great. According to both MLB....

The Legends Room store at the New York Yankees' spring training home does not have any of Rodriguez's No. 13 jerseys on sale as the team prepares for its exhibition opener next week. Eight players were represented with white, pinstriped jerseys hanging neatly on rods attached to a wall and available for $139.95 apiece Tuesday. They had the names and numbers of Babe Ruth (3), Mickey Mantle (7), Derek Jeter (2), Ichiro Suzuki (31), Brian McCann (34), Jacoby Ellsbury (22), Carlos Beltran (36) and Masahiro Tanaka (19)....