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...breathable. When the coolant system failed, the station had to be rotated like a pig on a spit to keep it from overheating in the sun. In April, Congress began work on a budgetary amendment that would require NASA to certify Mir's safety before more Americans go aloft. Russia appears to realize that it will either have to scuttle the ship or invest the money to fix it properly. While Moscow has nothing like the ready rubles that flowed during the Sputnik days, the government is proving resourceful at scratching up funds...
...elections. The people of Serbia deserve what their neighbors in Central Europe have -- clean elections." In Washington, State Department spokesman Glyn Davies said the United States would continue "turning up the flame" on Milosevic. Milosevic is sure to feel more heat after Dejan Bulatovic, arrested after he held aloft a effigy of the Serb president dressed in jailbird stripes, was beaten and tortured while in prison. The official charge? Traffic violations...
...sent aloft in 1972, when Richard Nixon was in the White House, Bobby Fischer was the world's chess champion, and the IBM 360 mainframe still dominated the computer industry. It was designed to have a useful life of three years, at most. Yet today, after a quarter-century, when Fischer has disappeared from the chess scene and the IBM 360 is merely a nostalgia item on display at Boston's Computer Museum, the doughty little spacecraft Pioneer 10 is still plugging along...
Mesa chairman Larry Risley attributes such problems to the delayed delivery of new planes in the face of soaring passenger demand. The 16-year-old New Mexico-based carrier operates 2,000 flights a day to 166 cities in 30 states. Borne aloft by the industry's good times, Mesa had strong profit growth in the second quarter. Yet Risley concedes that "we fell short of customers' expectations," and he vows to do "whatever it takes" to improve service. Apparently, it takes an FAA order...
Norman Thagard, the only other American to live aboard Mir, spent 115 days on the station last year, losing 17 lbs. and complaining afterward of the "cultural isolation" he felt while aloft. Lucid found that she was sometimes treated like a second-class passenger. Her crewmates occasionally left Mir to conduct maintenance outside. When they did, they placed red tape over the communications panel, a blunt sign to their guest that she was not to fool with a system they assumed she did not understand. The cultural gulf threatened to get even wider when a ranking officer in the Russian...