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...well--were found on Discovery's underbelly ?THE ROBOTIC ARM Discovery is equipped with a new 50-ft. (15.2-m) robotic arm that will reach out from the cargo bay to take infrared pictures of the orbiter at very close range, looking for potential problem areas ?THE PATCH KIT Discovery's astronauts will test a tile-repair technique using a sort of paste--but not, unless absolutely necessary, on damaged tiles...
...denuded hillside, which is nearer to fortified enemy positions. "I'm very scared because now we're closer to the fighting," says Nang La, 40. "But where else can we go?" Armed with a hoe and a machete, she and her husband, Ka Ling, 38, are leveling a patch of earth on which to build their third house, mostly from materials salvaged from their second, which they dismantled when they had to leave on June 1. It sat near the orphanage and had been their home for nearly five years. And their first house, near the Shan town of Mong...
...weeks ago, Mubarak wrote Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres suggesting a meeting in Cairo at the end of the month to discuss the foundering Middle East peace process. One obstacle is the unresolved question of Taba, the 250-acre patch of Sinai Desert coastline claimed by both Israel and Egypt. Peres is ready to submit the matter to international arbitration, as advocated by Mubarak. His coalition partner, Likud Leader and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, would probably go along with him because Shamir is anxious to avoid a clash that could jeopardize his chance of taking over as Prime Minister...
...attitude that all oil-patch workers live like TV's J.R. Ewing and deserve this downfall is tiresome. We are the people who have been doing the hard, dangerous, dirty work of keeping rigs running. The rest of the country can enjoy low oil prices now, but the repercussions may have Americans crying later in gas lines. Georgia McClure Woodward, Okla. Stemming Terrorism...
...these needs of watercolor better than his contemporaries, and he applied them where they most belonged--to the recording of immediate experience. A painting like Key West, Hauling Anchor, 1903, has a sparkling directness hardly attainable in oil. It is so simple looking--blue sea, white boat, a patch or two of red shirt, the red picked up again at the boat's waterline and in a jaunty lick or two of carmine reflection--that at first one does not mark the skill that went into it, the power of epigrammatic observation implicit in Homer's ability to convey...