Word: motions
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Like any test pilots, the astronauts gave their flying chair a thorough checkout; McCandless reported that his only real surprise was that the MMU shook and rattled when he turned on the forward-motion jets. The space walkers also retrieved a faulty camera from the aft end of the cargo bay, engaged in a brief and successful tryout of the shuttle's sinewy, 50-ft.-long arm, readjusted a scientific instrument on the big West German-made movable platform called the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) and tested some of the tools created for April's satellite retrieval...
...grappled with problems related to the theories of melting, hydrodynamics--dynamics of fields in motion--turbulence, magnetism, and liquid crystals. Most recently, Nelson has taken up the question of the transition from solid to liquid matter...
...have about a 75% completion rate," he says. "That's good for a quarterback. It's not so good for a luge racer." Tucker was born in San Juan, where his father distributed motion pictures for RKO. He lived there five of his 36 years, but spent the larger part around Albany, N.Y., irregularly pursuing a doctorate in physics among other degrees of understanding. Introduced as "George Turkey" by the Yugoslav public address announcer, Tucker muses, "He knows more English than he lets on," and takes off on another practice slide down a jagged icicle that meanders like...
...sooner had the court spoken than the predictable outcry was raised by Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, who has spearheaded the entertainment industry's million-dollar lobbying campaign against unrestricted videotaping. Valenti questioned whether the "copyright is real or whether it is mush," and insisted that "the future of creative entertainment of the American family is what's at stake here." Producer Irwin Winkler (Rocky III, The Right Stuff) was being only slightly sarcastic when he said: "Creative people have to eat. With this decision they will make less income. They...
Some legal scholars agree with Hollywood that technology is on fast forward while Congress and the court are in slow motion. Arthur R. Miller, a Harvard Law School professor and authority on copyright law, notes that the most recent congressional overhaul of copyright laws in 1976 "was obsolete the day it went into effect, at least in terms of technology." In 1976 there were some 50,000 VCRS in the U.S. Since then, sales have increased steadily (by 100% last year, and an expected 50% this year). By the end of the decade there will be an estimated 45 million...