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Their optimism was soon dashed. On the first day of flight, the astronauts tried to deploy a new instrument-pointing system (IPS), designed in West Germany, that aimed three of the onboard telescopes at celestial objects. The precision of the IPS is equivalent to focusing on a dime two miles away. The $60 million device, however, had bugs in its computer software and would not track properly. There was a brief moment when Astronomer-Astronaut Karl Henize shouted, "Hallelujah, it looks like it's working!" only to watch it wobble off target. Conceded Henize: "That hallelujah...
Reagan, like Gorbachev, had little new to say on substantive issues--with one misleading and embarrassing exception. In a long interview with five Soviet reporters that was published at the start of last week, Reagan astonishingly declared that the U.S. would not only negotiate with the Soviets before deploying a Star Wars system and offer to share the technology but that it would not deploy an SDI system "until we [the U.S. and U.S.S.R.] do away with our nuclear missiles, our offensive missiles." In fact, he repeated the thought in only slightly different language three times, which raised an obvious...
...been the point-people behind some of the most successful operations in history. Spirit of Saint-Louis? We built it. Catch-22? We wrote it. Bay of Pigs? Not us. As keepers of Harvard’s substantial intellectual, financial, and physical resources, we have the power to deploy solutions-oriented Harvard-affiliates to trouble spots around the world. In this case, we’ll save on airfare...
...have a shrill, we-must-abandon-our-vehicles-and-go-live-in-a-mud-hut tone to their message. Or maybe it's because I was reared in the South, where a disproportionate number of folks drive big trucks, regard wildlife as something to be shot and mounted and deploy enough hairspray every day to open ozone holes the size of Georgia. Whatever the reason, even after more than a decade of environmental indoctrination on both the West and East Coasts, I still have a tough time working up gut-level outrage over mankind's assault on Mother Nature...
...federal government spends $28.22 annually on a resident of Wyoming and $15.72 on a citizen of New York. Instead, Chertoff wants to employ risk analysis-like the kind used in a DHS draft report inadvertantly placed on a Hawaii state government web site last week-to determine how to deploy money according to the potential death toll and economic impact of various attacks on likely targets. If resources are spread too thin, they are useless, says Chertoff: "One hazmat suit in every town does nobody any good." Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas has a different take. "If we are just...