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IMAGINE TRYING TO SEIZE AN ELEPHANT THAT IS spinning overhead by grabbing onto three makeshift handholds the size of soup cans. Then consider performing this feat swaddled in a 255-lb. rubber suit, suspended in midair, with no net. It , was a comparable challenge that confronted the Endeavour astronauts last week when they rescued Intelsat, a 4.5-ton 17-ft.-long telecommunications satellite, from its useless orbit 230 miles above the earth. In a record 8-hr. 29-min. space walk, with the world rolling by beneath them, Commander Pierre Thuot, Richard Hieb and Lieut. Colonel Thomas Akers wrestled...
...that Jim had made out of copper. Water heats in the solar panels up on the roof, and flows down to this thermal bank. An industrial computer listens to thermometers throughout the house and controls a pump which sends hot water to cool places. The water flows through a rubber tube under the strips of metal that Jim called "radiant." The water warms the radiant, and the radiant warms the room...
...championed German unification triggered an embarrassing row that highlighted the disunity within the ruling coalition. The leadership of Genscher's Free Democrats, who are junior members of the three-party coalition, announced that Housing Minister Irmgard Schwaetzer would take over as Foreign Minister. Instead of rubber-stamping the appointment, a caucus of Free Democrats in the parliament rejected Schwaetzer and designated Justice Minister Klaus Kinkel. Members of the Christian Social Union, Kohl's other coalition partner, were so miffed at not being consulted about Genscher's replacement that they demanded a full Cabinet shuffle to restore confidence in the government...
...days before Roe. A generation raised in the era of safe and legal abortion is less likely to produce doctors ready to go to the barricades at the first sign of women being forced to undergo illegal -- and dangerous -- abortions. "I have personally taken care of women with red rubber catheters hanging out of their uterus and a temperature of 107 degrees," says Dr. David Grimes, 45, of the University of Southern California School of Medicine. "Once a physician has watched that happening, he or she will never be willing to watch the laws go back...
Alas, few of these improvements are landing where the rubber meets the road, because American contracting procedures discourage the use of novel techniques. In Europe, governments dictate only how long a highway should last under what conditions, and contractors are left to their own devices to deal with the challenge. In the U.S., contractors must meet an avalanche of government specifications on materials and procedures but are not required to guarantee the road's performance. "The Europeans create a contract climate that stimulates innovation; here we squash it," laments Douglas Bernard, director of the Office of Technology Applications...