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Most Disappointing Peek Through a Looking Glass If you get the wrong prescription at the local vision center, you can just go back and have it changed. Not so for NASA, whose incorrect prescription is spinning around the earth in the Hubble Space Telescope. Because a mirror was ground to the wrong shape, the space agency was saddled with a $1.5 billion instrument that performs far below expectations...
Also, the series boasts an open approach, said Joe Jarrell, segment producer. "Traditional documentaries are trying to sell a point of view. We're taking a peek as an outsider," he said. "You can decide whether it is interesting or silly...
TRAVEL: Eastern Europe offers a peek into the past...
Across town at the pool hall, three crooks sat around a card table playing a desultory game of seven card no peek, while waiting for the fuzz to arrive. In between dealing hands and looking for ways to cheat, Brett Langenderfer, 27, of Woodbridge, Va., explained that he was pretending to be wanted on a charge of interstate theft. When the agents stormed the building, Langenderfer tried to flee down a back stairway. "They call me the 'Rabbit' because I always run. It really gets the adrenaline going when the cops arrive, almost like rushing out of the locker room...
...efficient producers when the resulting surpluses are dumped on world markets. Yet despite the CAP, the Community is a net importer of foodstuffs, and a group of twelve countries that consistently runs a trade deficit with the rest of the world can hardly be described as fundamentally protectionist. A peek inside the global figures discloses that West Germany is the only E.C. country regularly racking up big trade surpluses within the Community and outside it as well. Subtract the West Germans and their world- record exports -- more than those of the Japanese, as Chancellor Helmut Kohl likes to boast...