Word: hydrogenate
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...tragedy. Now the quality of that vaunted technology has become a serious question. Last week, in a period of just a few days, NASA discovered that its $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope had been fitted with a faulty mirror and that a second of its three shuttles had sprung hydrogen leaks...
Costly and frustrating as the shuttle problem is, NASA will be able to correct it with relative ease. The agency prudently grounded not only the two faulty spaceships but the third shuttle as well, until engineers are satisfied that the hydrogen fuel system is safe. This means a wholesale rescheduling of NASA's launch program and corresponding delays in realizing all of NASA's scientific and military objectives...
...serious flaw in one of its mirrors hobbles the orbiting Hubble telescope until 1993, at least, while the shuttle fleet is grounded by the second hydrogen leak in a month...
...seem premature to write minimalism's obituary. After all, the prolific Glass has created several more music-theater pieces since Akhnaten, most recently The Hydrogen Jukebox, a collaboration with poet Allen Ginsburg. Among other exponents of minimalism, composer John Adams (Nixon in China) is busily at work on his second opera, The Death of Klinghoffer, which is scheduled for a Brussels premiere next year. Yet neither composer is still writing in the rigorously theoretical, disdainfully austere style of his early years...
Andrei Sakharov, first revered in the U.S.S.R. as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, then reviled as a traitor for his tireless defense of human rights, recounts his tumultuous life. -- A look at Lavrenti Beria, a "terrifying human being." -- The Oppenheimer-Teller feud. -- The man who poisoned Soviet science. -- Why Sakharov ranks as a world-class scientist...