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...crews had to coach the Discovery astronauts through the fabrication of attachments resembling flyswatters for the arm. While a ground team experimented with a duplicate of the arm, Discovery's "swat" team employed such mundane equipment as Swiss Army knives and a roll of duct tape to turn some plastic tubing, wire, a metal sunshade frame and plastic notebook covers into tools. The makeshift instruments, they hoped, would catch the trigger, initiating a 45-minute sequence that would culminate in the firing of the LEASAT's propulsion rocket...
Spending an estimated $27.9 billion a year for soft drinks, Americans seem to have almost unquenchable thirst. A handy new aid that caters to this craving is called Soda Stream. Fitted with a carbon dioxide cartridge, the shiny plastic appliance fizzes tap water into salt-free club soda. Adding flavor concentrates will make instant plain or diet cola, tonic, root beer or the popular fruit sodas. Compared with supermarket soda prices, which can soar as high as 50˘ for a 12-oz. brand-name can, Soda Stream at 15˘ per bottle is a bargain. The initial investment of $39.95 buys...
...they stopped making them. They ignored charges that they were tampering with the American way of life, not to mention the birth rate, but they did not ignore the rising price of used convertibles. So they started making them again. There was a time, similarly, when wrinkle-free plastic fabrics were supposed to replace cotton shirts forever. But when enough people complained that the plastic didn't let much air through, the cotton shirt returned, at handsomely increased prices. It is now the centerpiece of the approved yuppie uniform...
...hats to shoes, all white, the two of them. All white, too, is a model of "Little Boy" lying on the floor--120 in. long, 28 in. in diameter, nearly 9,000 lbs.--looking like a small, friendly Moby Dick. Another striking figure in the museum is that of "Plastic Man," described as "one of the most popular of all the laboratory's residents during the 1950s." The transparent dummy was used to test levels of radiation on human beings after an atomic blast...
Throughout the play, directed by Harvard Law School Professor Bruce L. Hay, Bearing oscillates between narrating her own experience with intellectual detachment and living it with graphic, emotional loss of control; in one scene she may lecture on hospital procedure and in another sob hysterically while vomiting into a plastic basin. Edson has her heroine’s experiences parallel Donne’s, making for a play that, like his poems, is both intellectually complex and emotionally wrenching...