Word: crafting
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...ability to get them home safely. Emily J. Chambers Columbus, Georgia, U.S. You wrote about the safety concerns plaguing nasa's space-shuttle program [Aug. 8]. I was among the millions of people around the world who watched the touchdown of the shuttle Discovery on television. The craft's journey to space and back was another stride in mankind's effort to unravel the mystery of the universe. We hope the benefits from the efforts in space will also reach us in rural Africa, where poverty, disease and hunger are making life for the majority of people not worth living...
...house, plucking out the living, leaving bodies behind. The potential for a disaster in the air was such that pilots told TIME reporter Adam Pitluk, who was embedded with them, to help scan the skies for stray news helicopters and sightseers in Cessnas among the flocks of military craft. "It was like a pickup game," said Lieut. Commander Bill Howey, a Navy helicopter pilot. "You got three or four different types of Army helicopters, same for the Navy. Then there's Customs, Coast Guard, Marines, and then there are the news helicopters." While rescuing a group of blind people trapped...
...cagey grace to make us both fond and suspicious of him. Hope Davis is Catherine's businesslike sister; it's a cold hand, stacked against her, in a movie that exalts intuition, that sees higher mathematics as no less an art than Beethoven's, and commerce as a craft no subtler than accounting...
...protection-sheltered stoolie who fingered him. He cozies up to a prisoner who may or may not be famed hijacker D.B. Cooper (Muse Watson). And he helps build an anniversary gift for the wife of the warden (Stacy Keach), to whom it never occurs that a guy who can craft the Taj Mahal out of toothpicks just might be able to pick the lock of his cage...
...cloth from between tiles, again to err on the side of caution. And despite the smaller amount of foam debris hits, NASA admits that the largest chunk to fall could have been equally disastrous had it hit the shuttle's wing or a heat-shielding tile elsewhere on the craft...