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...weightlessness, the scientist-astronauts got a fast start on their biomedical program. They took blood samples from one another (Payload Specialist Byron Lichtenberg, as the chief bloodletter, became known as "the vampire"), underwent eye tests, lifted steel balls, were flung around in a sledlike contraption called a body-restraint system, and even endured electric shocks. Not surprisingly, the orbital guinea pigs complained that the tests were making them ill, although the torture had a medical purpose: to learn more about the nausea, headaches and general lethargy, known as space-adaptation syndrome, that afflict about half of all astronauts in their...
...brawling, relentlessly partisan and even corrupt papers that were the norm when the First Amendment was written-the modern U.S. press is distinctively balanced. By the standards of the late 19th and early 20th century era of "yellow journalism," the American reporter today is a model of responsibility and restraint...
...brink is reached. Less than 150 miles separate advancing U.S. and Soviet troops. U.S. strategic nuclear forces go on alert, but the NSC refuses their field commander's request for tactical nuclear weapons. In the end, a combination of resolve and restraint wins a kind of peace: after the NSC orders air strikes to sever the Soviet supply routes, Muskie and his U.S.S.R. counterpart exchange messages, and they agree to negotiate a pullback...
...Bekaa Valley for the past 18 months (see box). The next step could be a retaliatory strike by the U.S., though officials in Washington were undecided about whether the U.S. had more to gain by demonstrating its vengefulness in the face of a terrorist act or by acting with restraint. Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass was quoted by a Lebanese magazine as threatening "kamikaze attacks" on U.S. warships in the event of an American raid on Syrian positions...
...decisions made at last week's Open Market Committee meeting will not be made public for a month. But a summary just released of the Federal Reserve's October session reveals that the committee agreed on a "slightly lesser degree of restraint." Wall Street experts doubt, however, that the Fed will push down interest rates substantially. Says Stephen Roach, senior economist at the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "My feeling is that the Fed will maintain a wait-and-see attitude through the rest of the year...