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Fortunately, we had an onboard navigation system, the Magellan 750NAV, in our Hertz rental car. While I drove, Danny punched in our coordinates. The NAV system computed the location of the closest 7-Eleven and--miraculously--displayed turn-by-turn driving instructions on a large, easy-to-read map while also reading them aloud...
...defined missions, something the ISS lacks. Astronauts can study the long-term effects of weightlessness on their own bones and muscle, as they have since the 1970s, but it's hard to say what benefit will be derived back on Earth. In fact, the first important science study done onboard will try to determine whether the station is even a good place to study microgravity, seemingly the one advantage it would have over ground-based labs...
More important, the NHTSA ratings are static, which means they do not take into account how a car handles. Consumers Union, the nonprofit organization that publishes Consumer Reports, last week criticized the ratings for this reason. Increasingly, the top-selling SUVs have a battery of onboard systems that help prevent a rollover, including antilock brakes, independent suspensions and computerized monitoring systems that adjust power to each wheel when a skid begins...
...year, customs cops on the Miami River seized a record 7,200 lbs. of cocaine, most from Haitian ships, four times as much as in the previous year. Haiti's imaginative narco welders have forced an inspection revolution. Customs teams often spend days dismantling keels, engine rooms and even onboard septic tanks and voodoo shrines that have yielded as much as 1,100 lbs. of coke at a time. "We've never seen the Colombians use a vessel's structure this way," says Miami customs supervisor Tom Stefanello over the racket of his agents' riveters...
...school-bus-size pods linked together like sausages. Last Thursday, however, the space shuttle Endeavor blasted off with the station's latest--and most dramatic--component, a 240-ft.-long set of solar wings that will gather light from the sun and provide juice to the energy-hungry hardware onboard...