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...work is hard: unloading 200-lb. bolts of wrapped garments, hauling them upstairs and unpacking them. A documented worker might earn $13 an hour for such labor; Luis gets $5. "Even if we paid our legals three times as much, they still would not do this work," observes the job's foreman...
...astronaut for the past 26 years, Dr. Story Musgrave has learned to handle pressure and danger. He knows what it's like to sit atop a 4.5 million- lb. space shuttle as its three main engines roar to life. He remembers well that when the eight steel bolts that attach the rocket boosters to the launching pad are blown away, there's no turning back. He has felt the crushing sensation as 6 million lbs. of thrust hurl him into orbit. And he knows how sublime and scary it is to float freely in space, tethered to the ship...
...astronauts call her, wasn't involved in wrestling the three-ton satellite into the shuttle's payload bay. (It eventually took three men to do that job.) This time, though, she will play a key role: installing the Hubble's corrective lenses. They will be housed in a 600-lb. box the size of a telephone booth, but in the weightlessness of space, Thornton should be able to manage the load. Explains Susan Rainwater, a spacewalk trainer at the Johnson Center: "The fact that a smaller woman was selected just demonstrates that the task requires more agility than physical strength...
...high-minded aversion to shameless self-promoters vanished with the recent birth of that 7-lb. 7-oz. love child, Tiffany Ariana Trump. Make no mistake, this is not the beginning of a screed on Family Values left over from last year's Republican National Convention. The way I see it, the marital status of Donald Trump and Marla Maples is a private matter best left to their attorneys, their accountants and their spokesmen. Instead, what fascinated me was their decision to name this blue-eyed baby girl Tiffany...
Chris Zingo, Cornell LB (Sr., 5-11, 212) Fairfield, Conn...