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...orbiting object in history. But like so many of the space agency's ambitious projects lately, this one didn't quite work out. The Italian-made satellite rose properly from the shuttle on a 10-m (39-ft.) boom, but the astronauts couldn't pull out its auxiliary power cord. When they finally got the cord out and began unreeling the satellite, the tether that kept it attached to the shuttle paid out for about 260 m (850 ft.) -- and then jammed, like a badly wound fishing reel. It jammed again when they tried to pull it in, and rather...
Still, it might have been worse. NASA has had little experience with tethered satellites, and no one was sure how this one would behave. There was some fear that it would wobble wildly at the end of its cord. The astronauts were prepared to cut the whole thing loose if the experiment threatened the shuttle. To the relief of the Italian Space Agency, that didn't happen, and the $379 million system may one day fly again...
...very idea that an incumbent president would run for reelection by the telling voters that change is necessary strikes an oxymoronic cord. As one old reporter put it, "In all the politics I've heard tell of...I don't recall a single politician ever having asked for a second term of office in order to make sure that the failed policies of his first would be abandoned in favor of something else...
...Pygmies begin to come into their own. Even with 14 years' experience, Fay can still lose a trail, but Ndokanda, a former elephant hunter, or any of the other Pygmies can read the very faintest imprint with a glance. In the forest they are utterly self-reliant, creating cord from vines, cups from leaves and bed mats from bark. Still, they are apprehensive about this forest, and when Fay tells them where we are going, Samory says, "Mokele Mbembe lives there." Fay is convinced that the Pygmies are describing a black rhinoceros, an animal that does occasionally fight elephants...
...almost like freshman year over again, butyou're on the opposite end," said Robert C. Rhew'92. "We're their umbilical cord...