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...transport a couple grocery bags with the top down. Stowing the soft top is a snap: just press a button, unlatch a hook and it folds into the trunk with minimal effort. But don't plan on carrying more than a few Twizzlers since only a sliver of cargo space remains...
...boosters are mostly traditional throwaways, and the best parts of the shuttle will be cannibalized to build them. A mammoth new heavy-lift cargo booster will be assembled out of two of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters and up to six of its liquid fuel main engines. This would be used to put an unmanned lunar lander and a small upper stage rocket into Earth orbit. A smaller booster, made of a single solid rocket and a single liquid-fueled engine, would then launch the four-person crew in the command module. The astronauts would dock with the lunar...
...Hawaii, the U.S. Customs Service confiscated Pampers boxes stuffed with jewelry, including a gold crown and three gem-encrusted tiaras (not to mention $200,000 worth of gold bullion and $1 million in Philippine pesos). And that's just what they managed to load onto the C-141 cargo plane to Hawaii: back at Malaca?ang Palace, officials discovered a stash of jewelry estimated by the government to be worth $310 million, while a further $13 million in gems (which Marcos has admitted were hers) were confiscated from a Greek national attempting to leave the country a few days later...
...have it, Austin was in the market for a new airport to replace the 63-year-old one the city had long outgrown. Bergstrom, with its 12,250-ft. runway, on which giant B-52 bombers could land, was ideal for the jumbo jets that carry the international air-cargo traffic Austin wanted to attract. So the city seized the opportunity, wading through mounds of federal red tape to have the base transferred to it and persuading reluctant airlines to relocate to a facility that would need extensive renovation for commercial traffic. A $400 million local bond referendum was passed...
...encontraban doctores dispuestos a tratarlos por los fondos limitados que ofrec?an los programas del gobierno. "Mientras muchos de los otros planes de salud se concentran en grandes grupos por empleador, nosotros nos enfocamos en inmigrantes con bajos ingresos y problemas de lenguaje", explica Molina, un endocrin?logo que se hizo cargo de la compa??a de su padre cuando ?ste falleci? en 1996. "Crec? con esta experiencia y lo que he hecho es desarrollarla?. Recientemente Molina Healthcare comenz? a captar a otros clientes con necesidades especiales, incluyendo personas con derecho a Medicaid y Medicare. "Se trata de los pacientes m?s dif?ciles...