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...campus is currently serviced by an arm of the University's Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) that includes 20 full-time maintenance workers and 92 mostly part-time custodial workers. The current FMO contract expires June...
...toughest job on this mission? That probably would be Marsha Ivins, the veteran astronaut who will use the shuttle's robotic arm to lift the 28-foot Destiny module from the shuttle's payload bay and move it into position on the space-station. Ivins will have only about two inches of clearance as she lifts the silver cylinder from its berth, then she has to rotate it, flip it over 180 degrees and put it in its place. Once that's done, she retrieves a docking port from where she previously parked it and puts it on Destiny...
...smoky haze around the snowy square has dissipated, the questions surrounding the dramatic incident have not. A Beijing arm of the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong strongly suggested the protesters, one of whom died, were devotees. "We heeded a call from our master to strengthen our fight against evil," said a member of the group based in the Chinese capital. Yet hours later, Falun Gong's New York head office distanced itself from the act: "This so-called suicide attempt on Tiananmen Square has nothing to do with Falun Gong practitioners because the teachings of Falun Gong prohibit any form...
...After two days of intense arm-twisting - and amid no discernible drop-off in criticism from grumbling politicians - California is now the proud owner of a $10 billion bond-issue plan that walks like a bailout of the state's near-bankrupt utilities, and quacks like a bailout of the state's near-bankrupt utilities. And certainly the protesters' signs say it's a bailout...
...that takes not only cheaper money but good psychology. And with the economy - two thirds of which is in consumers' trembling hands - not only screeching to a halt but starting to spew smoke from under the hood, three quarters of a point looks like the only shot in the arm in Dr. Greenspan's medicine cabinet...