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...required close coordination between earth and space. Astronauts Sally Ride and Mary Cleave, who are experienced with the robot arm, practiced flipping a replica of the switch at Mission Control. Other technicians tested duplicates of the manipulators in a special vacuum chamber to make sure they would withstand the airless chill of outer space...
...glamorous, but the brand is a jewel." So says EDOUARD MICHELIN, 41, CEO of the world's leading tiremaker, who is credited with opening up the secretive culture of the company his great-grandfather started in 1889. On the eve of unveiling the firm's latest invention--an airless tire--he spoke with TIME about the French company's latest opportunities and challenges...
MICHELIN: Tires that can run flat. Our Pax system lets you continue to drive for 20 miles at 65 m.p.h. even when a tire is flat. We also have an airless tire. In addition, we are looking at ways that, perhaps in 10 years, the tire will be able to talk to the car, saying "I'm worn out. I need pressure. Be careful; don't steer too fast; the road is slippery...
...citizen of what we might call Andersonville, that cheerless Southern California tract of warehouses, alleys and unwelcoming apartments whose prisoners suffer the blind assaults of grim fate without a murmur, without even the consolations of, say, existentialism to lighten their burden. This movie is the writer-director's most airless exploration of this postmodernist's Yoknapatawpha County, an antimovie that rejects even the most minimal obligations to character and plot that commercial films are supposed to respect. Stuff happens to Anderson's people. They just keep soldiering...
...examine our lives too closely. Our way of life is predicated on our not taking stock; not getting off the career-overtime-promotion hamster wheel; not, God forbid, living each day as if it might be our last. Because who would spend that day in an airless cubicle or on the 8:30 to Denver? We needed to believe that civilian, commuter-consumer life is heroic. And Flight 93--a weekday flight carrying largely business travelers--rendered the term "road warrior" literal...