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Unlike many other athletes, Darnyi prefers to race not against the clock but against the competition on a given day. In Seoul he will be pacing himself against California's David Wharton, 19, whose mark of 4:16.12 in the 400-meter medley is just a fraction of a second behind Darnyi's record of 4:15.42. Oddly, each man suffers from a sensory disability. Wharton is partially deaf and wears a hearing aid when on dry land. Darnyi has had only partial sight in his left eye since 1983. "We were fooling around in the snow when a snowball...
...Just a fraction of a second before Discovery's three main engines were to ignite for a critical 20-second test firing last week, a computer detected a problem with a valve that regulates flow in cooling lines; the computer aborted the test. That was the fifth postponement of the engine test in the past two weeks. The latest delay may cause the agency to further set back its launch date, now scheduled for mid-September, by as much as a week. While John ; Talone, who manages work flow on the Discovery, believes a September date is still realistic, some...
...rest of the funding came from theassociates of the Harvard International EnergyProgram, a group of donors which includes Apache,Chevron, Texaco, the DOE and the governments ofVenezuela, Spain and Japan. Except for Apache, allof those donors strongly oppose any oil importfee. But each contributed only a small fraction tothe project and none had specially earmarked thefunds for the study...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida--America's space program suffered another setback yesterday when a computer reported a valve problem and aborted the test-firing of space shuttle Discovery's engines a fraction of a second before ignition...
Adapting to the change in fortune, Polaroid announced last week that it plans to add regular film to its continuing line of instant-camera products. The company, based in Cambridge, Mass., hopes to wrest a fraction of the $7 billion-a-year world market for conventional film from industry leaders Eastman Kodak, which controls 60% of sales, and Fuji Photo Film, with 25%. One giant plus on Polaroid's side is its brand-name recognition. In just two years of testing in Spain and Portugal, Polaroid-labeled 35-mm, 110-mm and 126-mm film captured about...