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...cargo, three communications satellites, and promptly ran into trouble. As they were attempting to temporarily open the sunshield on AUSSAT, an Australian satellite, the shield snagged on AUSSAT's antenna and stuck. Although the astronauts managed to nudge the sunshield completely open with Discovery's 50-ft. robot arm, NASA decided it was too risky to close the screen again; if it could not be reopened, the satellite would be useless in orbit...
...Cabbage Patch Kid is finally faltering. Toy & Hobby World magazine recently reported that Coleco Industries' cuddly doll ($59.95) lost its position as the best-selling toy in the U.S., a title it had held for 16 months. The new No. 1 is Hasbro Bradley's plastic-and-metal toy robot series, the Transformers (average price...
Competition in the toy business is far from childlike. The robot, introduced in April 1984, edged ahead of its rival partly because of a heavy ad campaign coupled with a syndicated television show, Transformers, that features some of the 50 different varieties of the toy. Hasbro Bradley estimates that it will sell 30 million robots this year, for total sales of $200 million...
...universe to let him leap backward and forward through space, time and meaning. Still, Fish is the best evidence yet that Adams is not simply a funny sci-fi writer but a bomb-heaving satirist. Consider the spaceship that lands in central London, demolishing Harrods and disgorging a robot that demands, "Take me to your Lizard." On its world, Ford Prefect explains, "the people are people. The lizards are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." The system, he says, is called democracy. But why do the people vote for the lizards? "Because if they...
...apparent boredom, have not worn well on Capitol Hill. "It's like there's a tape recorder in his head," complains a Republican Senator. "You hear the same thing again and again." A former employee thinks that may be the real Cap, describing Weinberger as "an automaton, a robot...