Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brochure. Here is a picture of a policeman leaning over the body of a Miamian whose throat has been slit and wallet emptied. There is a sleek V-planed speedboat, stripped of galleys and bunks and loaded with a half-ton of marijuana, skimming across the waters of Biscayne Bay. Here are a handful of ragged Cuban refugees, living in a tent pitched beneath a highway overpass...
ROCK/JAZZ: "Son of Pop Chops"; Craig Spector, guitar; "It Don't Mean a Thing..."; Sam Steffke, piano, George Pierce, trumpet, and the Pride of Back Bay Big Band; Berklee Performance Center; Monday...
Giovanni G. Fazio, Paul Gorenstein, John L Kohl and William H. Parkinson each have an experiment that has been accepted by NASA for use in the so-called "space lab" flights of the space shuttle slated to begin in 1983. During the space-lab missions, the back bay of the Columbia--which has been empty in these preliminary flights--will be filled with 12 or more astronomical experiments...
...conducted several successful tests of a 50-foot mechanical arm, which on future missions will be used to retrieve satellites for in-flight servicing or later repairs on earth, and to deploy payloads from the shuttle's cargo hold. On this mission, the 15-foot by 60-foot cargo bay held its first scientific payload, with experiments designed to study a variety of geologic, atmospheric, and oceanic features...
...test that was eliminated from the mission was a rehearsal for an emergency space walk, which would have been performed if automatic devices to close the four payload-bay doors failed to work, or if the robot arm had malfunctioned...