Word: capes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sitting in his new office, the new acting dean does not look the part of the overworked administrator. After a two-week vacation in Cape Cod and an uneventful transition, Rosovsky appears well-rested and seems undaunted by the task ahead...
...contrast, The Showtime 30-Minute Movie, premiere of a series, takes a no- frills, no-big-names approach to three first films by new directors. In Conquering Space, a girl discovers first lust, learns to drive and watches her family fall apart at pre-moonshot Cape Canaveral. In 12:01 P.M., a twitchy corporate flunky has terminal deja vu, condemned to repeat endlessly one hour of a single day. In To the Moon, Alice, a homeless family takes nightly refuge on the comfy set of a TV sitcom...
...undersea cable 222 km (138 miles) long, traversing the 1,920-meter-deep (6,300 ft.) Alenuihaha Channel. That would be the longest and deepest undersea electrical transmission line in the world. No one knows whether such a cable could operate reliably, nor whether its construction might harm the Cape Kinau nature reserve on Maui...
...Cape Canaveral last week, technicians prepared to move the shuttle Atlantis from its launching pad back to the vehicle-assembly building for repairs after failing to halt the seepage of hydrogen from a flange connecting fueling pipes to the spacecraft's giant external tank. As a result, all three U.S. shuttles are grounded while NASA continues to probe the cause of the mysterious leaks, not only in Atlantis but also in its sister ship Columbia...
Only one event brightened an otherwise gloomy week for the space agency. The first commercial version of the Atlas rocket was finally launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral. It lofted into orbit a satellite that in September will provide scientists with important data on radioactive damage to satellites in outer space...