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...month ago, presupposed that in a NATO-Warsaw Pact conflict, a crucial fighting area would be the Norwegian Sea, between Norway and Iceland. The northern reaches of the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea constitute the Soviet Union's "ocean bastion," where its submarines move freely with their cargo of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles. To prevent NATO'S killer subs and surface submarine hunters from entering the area during a war, the Soviets figure that they must totally control those waters north of the line stretching from Greenland to Iceland to the Shetlands and Norway. Last week...
Once controllers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in suburban Washington are convinced that Max is functioning, it will be lifted out of the cargo area with the mechanical arm and set afloat in space. (If the tinkering fails, the astronauts will strip Solar Max of its cumbersome solar panels, lay it on its side in the cargo bay and carry it back down to the ground for an overhaul.) By then, Challenger will have climbed to an altitude of 270 miles. The higher orbit will reduce the effect of atmospheric braking and extend the satellite's lifetime until...
...will lock onto a grappling device on Solar Max. (Challenger's fifth astronaut is Dick Scobee, 44, a onetime airplane mechanic who will be Crippen's copilot.) With helpful nudges from Nelson and Van Hoften, Solar Max will be eased into a special cradle in the cargo bay for the repair. The astronauts' task in the bay will be to remove a defective attitude-control module, a 500-lb., orange-crate-size package that contains the whirling gyroscope-like wheels and other electronic gear for maintaining Solar Max's position in space. The entire job, from...
Tests by the Department of Transportation (DOT) have shown conclusively that five-axeled trailer rigs carrying 99,000 pounds of cargo--the ostensible limit--do as much damage to a highway as 96 cars. Moreover, DOT spot checks have also found that at any time 25 to 35 percent of all trucks on the road to as much as 133,000 pounds every additional 1000 pounds cargo does more than just 1000 pounds' worth of damage...
There is little sense in double rigs with theoretical weight equal to those of 45-foot trailers, but with 11 tempting feet of extra cargo space. These trucks provide a ripe opportunity for the unscrupulous trucker--and more than one-quarter of them are unscrupulous--to overload in pursuit of bigger profits. The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 deregulated the industry, finally making it a competitive one--and 3000 new carriers seized the opportunity to grab permission to run on 36,000 new routes in 1983. The competition is brutal; the railroads have moved in to grab back a full...