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...true." There are other advantages too, he notes. "The human eyes are connected to the best portable computer there is [the brain]. And when things go wrong, a person can often fix them faster, more easily and more efficiently than a robot can. Look at the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission...
When Breslin's chair broke down an hour later, she was once again at the mercy of others. After telephoning a disabled-access taxi service, she had to wait nearly two hours. The driver charged $90 to transport her and Martinez to a wheelchair-repair shop across the bay. Strapped in her chair like furniture, Breslin rocked uncomfortably in the rear of the van with each high-speed freeway turn. A technician fixed her electric motor, and soon a friend arrived to help her get home. Such is the life of the disabled: determined, resourceful and, all too often, reliant...
Eventually Klipfel alerted Treasury's Inspector General, this time adding charges of misconduct by her commanders, Joseph Vince, at that time the Chicago office's agent in charge, and Jimmie Adamcik, his assistant. Among the charges: that Adamcik had sent ATF cars to a friend's repair business and had associated openly with John Boyle, head of an armored-car company who was under indictment for stealing more than $4 million, much of it in coins entrusted to his company. (Boyle later pleaded no contest to all charges and was sentenced to 38 months in prison...
...structure will allow HSDN to support core services like maintenance of fiber optic facilities, and diagnostic and repair services, but other services will become optional and will be administered on a fee-for-service basis...
...Russians have little money to repair or maintain Baikonur and are dependent on NASA payments--$400 million has been budgeted so far--for the use of their facilities. "The payment is not commensurate with Russian participation in the project," grumbles Grigori Khozin, director of the Center for Global Problems at the Russian Diplomatic Academy and an expert on his country's space program...