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...reason for the mishap may not be known until NASA and Rockwell officials complete their separate investigations. Yet some of the circumstances are already known. Apparently, safety supervisors erred in clearing the technicians to go into the craft. Before a launch rehearsal, it is standard procedure to use nonflammable nitrogen to flush oxygen-laden air out of the engine compartment, where even the slightest friction or electrical spark can touch off a deadly fire. Afterward, the technicians, all of whom had considerable experience working with the shuttle, went into the nitrogen-saturated compartment without their air packs, the portable breathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shuttle Tragedy | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

Sportswriters have varying motivations for practicing their craft. Love of sport, love of writing, love of creativity. A perverse desire to violate Crimson form. Personally, I write for shot glasses, college shot glasses...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: A Harvard Hoop Season; Images and Reflections | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

Brussels is a boring place to study art. It is boring in general. Each night tourists assemble in the Grand Place to watch a light show projected onto the magnificent 15th-century buildings that once housed the craft and trade guilds, as a sound track hums from loud speakers...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: A Portrait of the Art Student | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

Brussels is a boring place to study art. It is boring in general. Each night tourists assemble in the Grand Place to watch a light show projected onto the magnificent 15th-century buildings that once housed the craft and trade guilds, as a sound track hums from loud speakers...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Save Money; Take the Bus | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...Secret Service joined the investigation.) Allentown police arrested the bill passers-but not the two high school boys who had created the bogus scrip-and turned their cases over to juvenile authorities. The police at least gave the budding young printers good marks for their technically criminal craft. Said Lieut. Ronald Neimeyer: "The bills looked good. The quality and the color were not great, but they were absolutely perfect in every other respect." Maybe Johnny can't read, but he can print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Extra Credit | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

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