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...series of trials that followed to determine the fate of the slaves on board. A number of parties, including Queen Isabella II of Spain, the Spaniards on board the ship, representatives from Cuba and a pair of British naval officers made claims to ownership of the ship and its cargo of slaves once it turned up on American shores. Abolitionists, here portrayed by Morgan Freeman and Matthew McConaughey, tried to have the slaves set free altogether...
...guys strapping on the tool belts, doing repair work in orbit. A seven-and-a-half-hour spacewalk ended with astronauts Winston Scott and Takao Doi manually recovering a $10 million satellite that had gone spinning out of control. With the Spartan solar observer now safely in the shuttle cargo bay, astronauts are running tests to see whether the reusable satellite can go out for another 6 to 20 hours of observation before crew members retrieve it and return to Earth. NASA TV/REUTERS...
Sawgrass's success is spurring local imitators: Dolphin Mall, a quick taxi ride from the airport, plans to open in 1999 with a roller coaster and other attractions. A Dolphin developer marveled that American Airlines has had to bring in extra cargo planes at times to carry the overflow goods of booty-laden visitors flying home after visits to Sawgrass...
Tsibliyev seemed distracted, thinking less about what he was doing tonight than what he would be doing tomorrow. Sometime in the morning, probably just before noon, the commander would lock his remote-control guidance system onto an unmanned Progress cargo ship hovering far away and bring it into the station for a docking. For a commander like Tsibliyev, steering a limber little ship like Progress toward a big whale of a target like Mir should not have been cause for worry, and ordinarily he would have been looking forward to the exercise. But tomorrow things would not be so ordinary...
...rolling below the station, while a tiny, pixilated smudge--Mir itself--vanished and reappeared as it flew from the white clouds to the black oceans and back again. Tsibliyev, however, saw even this small target as a good target. With little hesitation, he engaged one joystick and brought the cargo ship's thrusters to life. Somewhere above, the ship invisibly exhaled propellant and began descending toward the station...