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...design); easy-to- replace canisters (solid matter used to collect in the bowl, and astronauts sometimes had to smash it down with a spatula); and (thank heavens) more powerful fans. As expensive as the device is, it was little wonder that Mission Control mildly admonished the crew for leaving the lid up and the fan going after they'd finished doing their business...
...short-lived isotope, which is used as a tracer in medical research, left invisible spots that were detected with a Geiger counter. A clean-up crew found traces on the floor and in the elevator...
...place of untamed beauty. Now Shetland is distinguished by 619,000 bbl. of spilling oil. The tanker Braer, owned by a subsidiary of a U.S. firm, ran aground Tuesday after its engines failed during a storm. A few hours before the ship hit the rocks, helicopters took the crew off, so no one was aboard to secure a line to a rescue tug. As rough seas kept salvors from pumping off the remaining crude, the slick threatened to kill thousands of birds. The Braer's operator, Bergvall & Hudner, said its $700 million in insurance will cover damage claims...
Roger seems willing to be exploited as long as he gets paid for it. As they were secretly negotiating the deal with Atlantic, Clinton and his manager, Norman ("Butch") Stone, allowed the crew from Esquire to take them to Planet Hollywood, a touristy restaurant in Manhattan, where the two Arkansans ordered steak and a vast amount of appetizers (the remnants of which they took away in a doggy bag). Roger let patrons take pictures, and he was treated by the staff to free caps, T shirts and a private tour. "I think he and Butch thought it was the funniest...
...cast and crew are entirely equal to the challenge of such an over-indulgent tale. They revel in the play. Modern productions of hardcore Elizabethan shlock tend to degenerate into a protracted joke at the expense of the crude plot. But Skin and Bone avoids this temptation. Rather than 100 minutes of dreary self-parody, the production flings itself into the play with gay abandon. Of course it still appears garish, over-the-top, even absurd; but it is not cast as simply worthless. The distinction may seem subtle, but it makes the difference between a snide exercise in self...