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...television camera toward Mir. Inside, Commander Vasily Tsibliyev watched a monitor as he operated a pair of joysticks, coaxing the robot ship in for a docking. But inexplicably, Progress stopped responding to Tsibliyev's commands and rammed the station. The collision damaged Mir's solar panels and punctured its hull, threatening not only the lives of the crew but perhaps the future of U.S.-Russian collaboration in space as well...
Nichols is eloquent on the dangers any single-hander faces: sleeplessness, storms, illness, and the danger of being run down by a freighter highballing at 22 knots with the radar off. But it is Toad, despondent, that commits the kind of suicide possible only if your hull is made of fitted planks. Its 10-year-old caulking gives way, and slowly, reproachfully, despite days of hard pumping, it settles beneath the water, 400 miles off Bermuda, shortly after its master is rescued...
...five other students going on the trip are senior Hans Hull, sophomore Andy Goodman, junjor Sadie Ryan, sophomre Amanda Marr and sophomore Sarah Henry...
Jackson's research assistant Sara E. Kimberlin '97 said the fellowship will give Jackson the time to continue studies of Hull-House that began with her doctoral work...
During the upcoming year, Jackson plans to interview surviving residents of Hull House. Jackson said she also hopes to develop upon her one-woman play inspired by the diaries and letters of women who lived in the House