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...area of the Atlantic Ocean where the booster rocket was expected to fall. The mission's thorniest problems, however, began the day following takeoff, 15 hours after the successful launch of a Canadian-owned communications satellite. The difficulty arose when the crew deployed a second satellite, a LEASAT communications instrument under lease to the Navy and insured for $85 million. The 20-ft.-long, 7½-ton cylinder built by Hughes Aircraft's Space & Communications Group flipped out of Discovery's cargo bay exactly as planned. But the satellite's rocket failed to ignite, leaving the huge canister stuck...
...Maneuvering the colonoscope, they placed the loop around the suspect polyp and passed an electric current through the wire which cauterized the polyp, freeing it from the intestinal wall. Held to the end of the colonoscope by suction, the polyp was withdrawn. Using the same instrument, the doctors visually scanned the rest of the President's colon. It was during this examination that the larger polyp was discovered in the cecum, at the juncture of the large and small intestines...
...recorders were flown to Bombay, where electronics experts were expected to take several days to analyze the data. The voice recorder should have preserved every sound in the cockpit during the last 30 minutes of flight, from the voices of the crew to possible instrument noises, like alarms. The flight-data recorder should show precise measurements of altitude, engine speed, heading and other flight conditions from takeoff to the impact of the crash...
...suffering of people and the destruction of a city. The second view is that of a physicist who witnessed the first successful nuclear chain-reaction experiment in Chicago in 1942, worked on the Bomb at the Los Alamos laboratory and flew in the yield-measuring instrument plane beside the Enola Gay. Later he was the director of Los Alamos. What he saw was the effort of American scientists to win the war and the developing partnership of science and the military...
...Young artists like Mirwais have several advantages over their veteran rivals. The cascading clarity of their voices blends harmoniously with the Afghan rabab, an ancient, 19-stringed instrument that is a cross between a sitar and a mandolin. And because he is still a boy, Mirwais is allowed at weddings to sing for both men and women, whose parties are strictly segregated. This will last until Mirwais turns 15 and is considered a man, no longer to be trusted around unveiled women...