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...roll band on the planet. Their newest, Bloodshot, is getting nowhere near the recognition it deserves, even though it moves them from an R 'N' B based rut they've been in from the start, and is the near masterpiece that we've been expecting from them. The only drawback is probably that Boston no longer sees as much of this outfit as the city collectively deserves. This is to be their only summer appearance around here. It'd probably be well worth anybody's while to brave the Schaeffer atmosphere to see them. Just get there early, take...
...pole and sheet out of a small airlock in the middle of the Orbital Workshop's exposed area. Springs in the umbrella's "spokes" would automatically snap the covering into a rigid rectangle that could be positioned close to the skin of the shieldless spacecraft. Major drawback of the parasol: the airlock mechanism would prevent the astronauts from seeing how the operation was proceeding outside the spacecraft...
BRECHT'S INABILITY to convey science convincingly is not just an irritating drawback: it is a central flaw in this work. How much faith can we place in a man's evaluation of scientific progress if he seems to have no conception of what science is? Like this whole production, Brecht's script lacks a tone of authority. The players and the playwright seem equally uncertain about what they are trying to do, and therefore equally incapable of achieving...
...blanket of U-238, a much more plentiful but nonfissionable form of uranium, and transmute large amounts of it into plutonium. This fissionable byproduct can then be used as a fuel in other breeders. Thus breeders should be able to stretch existing uranium supplies for several centuries. One big drawback: the fission wastes are highly radioactive and extremely difficult to store...
...only drawback to the German drug--which controls aggressive behavior by inhibiting the production of testosterone--is that it has one rather unfortunate side effect. The drug induces impotence, an extreme emotional price to pay for "curing" violent behavior...