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...when a statue of a Cornell founder wasfound vandalized last week, repair work began thatsame day, Garcia said...
...moon landings. Though NASA is trying to downplay it as a "scheduled maintenance flight," the goal is anything but routine: the crew is supposed to fix the faulty Hubble Space Telescope, a $1.6 billion disappointment that has kept astronomers in anguish since it was launched three years ago. The repair work will require that alternating pairs of astronauts go on five space walks of six hours each, which would break the NASA record of four such excursions on a mission. Since the task will be something like weaving baskets while wearing boxing gloves in a weightless environment, success...
...season brought Restic looking like a modern-day Clint Eastwood and questions about the football team. Could Restic work his magic and pull out a title? Or would the loss of star quarterback Jim Kubacki '76 hurt the team beyond repair...
...take lead as an example, since it's one of the most common problems. Too much lead (more than 15 parts per billion) tends to show up in older, turn-of-the-century houses with lead pipes and in homes where lead solder has been used to join and repair plumbing. Lead solder was banned in 1986, but it is still around in older pipes...
Sounds like material for a couple of Seinfeld episodes right there, but on this particular day, more pressing work is at hand. After lunch the two will repair to the Seinfeld offices on the Studio City lot across the street to rewrite this week's script -- a script that is already late and getting later. Yet they seem unfazed; on the Seinfeld show, scrambling to keep up is business as usual...