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Judging from the quality of last year's awardees, five of whom were among the nation's 32 Rhodes scholars named in 1986, this year's contingent promises much in terms of that crucial competence. It includes the inventor of a hand- held computer scanner, a part-time Washington lobbyist against federal deficits and a professional ballerina turned budget analyst. Diversity is the rule. Eric Gaidos plots schemes for the exploration of Mars at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. Martha McSally, a biology major and triathlete, helps oversee basic training at the U.S. Air Force...
...search did not yield a verifiable Atocha remnant. Says Fay Feild, an engineer and consultant to Treasure Salvors, who designed a special magnetometer for Fisher: "With a magnetometer, even in a limited area, only one in 100 'hits' has anything to do with a wreck. With a side- scanner, it's one in a million...
...spoken woman, Hurd gained practice in the frugality and tough-mindedness that brought Aliens in on its relatively modest $18 million budget. She is capable of denying her husband the time or the equipment he needs for one of his on-set brainstorms. When he insisted on a laser scanner for the picture's first sequence, she made him pay for it himself. All her grit was needed to cope with ten months of Aliens production in unenlightened England. "The British view of female producers proved to be a big problem for Gale," says her husband. "They didn't know...
...surveying the planet with an array of instruments. Around the time of Halley's perihelion, they realized, Venus--and thus Pioneer--would be in position to have a direct view of the comet. Late in December the scientists ordered the spacecraft to pivot 90 degrees and point its ultraviolet scanner at the comet. It has been transmitting Halley's data to Ames ever since. Says Ian Stewart, chief scientist of the Pioneer- Halley's project: "It's a gift from the gods, being in the right place at the right time." Pioneer has also determined the rate at which Halley...
Moore told the space subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee that the reading was recorded on a hand-held infrared scanner used by workers examining the shuttle for ice contamination on the morning of the launch. No word of the low temperature reading was ever relayed to officials charged with deciding whether to go ahead with the launch, he said...