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...ignited. Once engines are sparked and combustible materials released, the likelihood of a launch-pad tragedy escalates dramatically. As it turns out, experts who studied high-speed film of Discovery's firing taken right before shutdown believe that something was burning that should not have been. Normally, the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxgygen that combine in the engine nozzles to fuel the shuttle at takeoff produce billows of clean white steam. The film shows reddish-orange streaks in the clouds, a sign of burning plastic...
Sitting in a stainless-steel vat of liquid nitrogen at Queen Victoria Medical Center in Melbourne, chilled to a crisp-320° F, are 200 glass tubes, each holding a microscopic embryo. Just two to eight cells in size, they are babies in waiting, life on ice, kept for possible use by participants in the hospital's in-vitro fertilization (IVF) program. Last week hospital officials were stunned to learn that two of their charges could be heirs to a million-dollar fortune. The news set armchair ethicists around the world abuzz and forced Australian policymakers to ponder...
...this Sausalito company have included Locker Room, which took place in a high school locker room, with the audience seated atop the lockers, and Surface Tension, a water work that toured swimming pools up and down the West Coast. For the festival, Farabough has created another aqueous drama, Liquid Distance/ Timed Approach, which she has staged, so to speak, in the swimming pool of the Beverly Hills High School. Unfortunately, the chlorinated blue water is clearer than her plot, which covers everything from the sinking of the Titanic to high school pool parties. Although the ten cast members are skillful...
...Illinois-based disposal Goliath. Over the past decade, Vulcanus I has conducted test burns in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Vulcanus II was set to begin commercial operations in the gulf, where the ship's giant furnaces were to reduce thousands of tons of liquid poisons to harmless vapor. To broaden the burn program, the Maritime Administration backed a $55.8 million loan that enabled At-Sea Incineration Inc. to build two disposal vessels in Tacoma, Wash. Advocates call Apollo I and Apollo II "state...
...armed with order forms, style books, color charts, the buyers, with occasional encouragement and sweet talk from the designers, start to act just like serious shoppers. They pull clothes off racks, hold them up, try them on. Armani's definitive long coats and shorter sexy skirts; his loose, liquid, wool jumpsuits; his jackets with turned-down lapels; his heart-stopping evening wear... heaven on a hanger! Claude Montana's huge coats in electroshock colors; Yohji Yamamoto's sweaters in colors like a deep-sea bottom! Saint Laurent's peerless pants! It is easy enough...