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That same local entertainment writer wants to set up a meeting between the two of us. Me and her, like the rubber man and the bearded lady. Wonderful. If he can find her--and I've got my fingers crossed that he can't--I'll play the fool. It'll help out a fellow journalist...
...problem, you may remember, was traced to a rubber O-ring in the right-hand booster. O-rings may sound insignificant, but they're not. One Air Force official compared the space shuttle's dependency on O-rings to an airplane's dependency on wings. NASA rates O-rings as items of "Criticality I," meaning that their failure could result in the destruction of the space shuttle...
...Morton-Thiokol treat the O-rings with the scrutiny and care befitting a crucial shuttle component? You decide. In a subcontractor's assembly plant, inspectors found workers storing their lunches in refrigerators alongside strips of rubber used to manufacture the crucial seals. Workers were also found to be using paint marks on the floor to measure the O-rings. And in one Morton-Thiokol plant, an Air Force inspector discovered that new and used O-rings were stored in the same area. In his report, he speculated on the "possibility of intermixing" them during the assembly of the rocket boosters...
Macintosh owners without a convenient surface to slide their mouse over, will certainly appreciate a mouse pad ($10). This handy rubber (or synthetic) slab helps keep the mouse moving smoothly, and prevents dust from accumulating on the mouse's main moving part. Also useful for mouse improvement is a new set of the little teflon feet on each corner of the mouse ($3) they will also improve the mouse's glide, whether on a special pad or just a desktop...
...volume in which he set down observations and literary snippets for future reference. That discovery prompted Bryan, 82, a veteran U.S. magazine editor and author -- his memoir, Merry Gentlemen (and One Lady), was published last year -- to compile a commonplace book of his own. In less skillful hands, the rubber , cement would have shown through. Hodgepodge, happily, is a literate, lifelong miscellany, illuminated with flashes of comedy...