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...search also retrieved enough of the shuttle's parts to substantiate the findings of NASA investigators and a presidential commission looking into the disaster. The probers have concluded that a joint between two segments of the shuttle's right booster failed, letting superhot gases escape and rapidly ignite liquid fuel from the external tank, causing an explosion 73 seconds into the flight...
Outside the auditorium, officials searchingbags and checking for Harvard College or GraduateSchool of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) identificationcards confiscated a plastic bottle full of a"sticky red liquid" which one man had apparentlybrought to throw at Rosales, Kashani said...
Rosales, a spokesman for the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, was hit with eggs and blood-like liquid after only three sentences of his speech in Boylston Auditorium last month...
...tanned mask of flat paint with schematic shading, great swacking eyelashes and lipstick-colored lips: it is the face of advertising, the size of an image on a '50s highway billboard shifted into the context of domesticity. Much of the time the face belongs to his wife Ada, whose liquid brown, slightly melancholy eyes and handsomely curved nose recur in image after image, making her one of the most pervasive "presences" in American art since Marilyn Monroe. Ada makes an early appearance in a black sweater, with the characteristic level stare, in 1957; by 1972, in Blue Umbrella...
...separate safety problem--on a launch last Jan. 12 of the shuttle Columbia with Florida Congressman Bill Nelson aboard--sources on the presidential commission told TIME that NASA tried to persuade technicians of Rockwell Corp.'s Rocketdyne Division to bypass faulty valves on lines feeding the liquid-oxygen fuel tank. Rocketdyne refused, and NASA learned later that a foul-up was causing the huge external fuel tank to drain rather than fill. "If that orbiter had lifted off with the tank almost empty, it would have imploded, collapsed, and that would have finished the shuttle," said the commission source...