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...then, as six sets of hooks and latches locked into place, an American spaceship and a Russian one were soaring through space together for the first time in two decades. The astronauts and cosmonauts checked to make sure the tunnel-like air lock linking the ships had no leaks. At length, the hatches swung slowly open. Mir's commander, Vladimir Dezhurov, floated through the lock and grasped Gibson's hand in joyous greeting...
Yale: 1. Broke. 2. New Haven lock factory. 3. Where you would have gone if you didn't get into Harvard...
After his TV appearances on Tuesday, O'Grady was admitted to the hospital at Andrews Air Force Base. His feet were still raw and inflamed from six days of exposure in his soaked pilot's boots. Scott would remain "under lock and key" for what Air Force officials said was an indefinite stay...
...this lock-'em-up-and-throw-away-the-key era, however, it is hard to drum up sympathy for poor, often minority, often guilty defendants. "In the war on crime," says Nicholas Chiarkas, Wisconsin's state public defender, "many people think of public defenders as representing the enemy." John Holdridge, director of the Mississippi and Louisiana Capital Trial Assistance Project, agrees. "This is the most unpopular issue around," he says...
...feeds them. Media-company executives and major stars contributed heavily to Clinton's 1992 campaign and to Democratic coffers generally in last year's congressional elections. Even so, the Democrats appreciate the potential power of the cultural-pollution issue and hope to position themselves prominently before Republicans get a lock...