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...beating, requiring it to spend far more time in the shop being maintained than it ever did in orbit. What's more, the configuration of such a machine-with the rockets strapped directly to the sides of the crew vehicle-puts fuel, debris and humans in awfully close proximity. Fourteen people have died as a result of that lethal propinquity...
...Fourteen of the contenders debated tax policy Tuesday at a forum at the Cambridge Senior Center, with challengers claiming that climbing taxes are pricing Cantabrigians out of their own city to make way for wealthy condominium dwellers. The forum was sponsored by the Progressive Democrats of Cambridge, which endorsed seven candidates at the meeting...
...largest space in the three-room exhibit, for example, contrasts sculptures cast in bronze, like “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen,” against the rich colors of “Two Dancers Entering the Stage” and other works of ballerinas in rehearsal...
...twelve, fourteen guys together and have a couple of cocktails,? Powers told me in 1985 when first I met him, and asked him about the BLOHARDS. He was treating me to a nice lunch at the Yale Club in midtown Manhattan, which has also, in 2004 and ?05, served as the site of the most recent BLOHARDS luncheons. ?We were basically transplanted New Englanders. We didn?t call ourselves the BLOHARDS then. That came a couple of years later, when I was thinking about that benevolent-loyal-order stuff of the Grangers back in Uxbridge...
Last week two leading cable services, Home Box Office and Cinemax, which are both owned by Time Inc., acted to stymie this practice. The firms began scrambling their satellite transmissions so that dish owners who try to tune into those cable networks will get nothing but a garble. Fourteen other cable programmers, including MTV, CNN and Showtime, will follow suit. Showtime will start scrambling its signals...