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...that scrubbed flights are increasing and that some airlines have been canceling when they have not sold enough seats to make a flight profitable. The carriers deny it, but Hoyt Decker, an industry analyst for the Department of Transportation, insists, "I'm sure it happens." While airlines can legally scratch occasional flights, the department has investigated at least six airlines on complaints that they were doing it systematically. So far, however, no scheduled U.S. airline has been penalized for this...
...proposal has the advantage of using booster sections that already exist, and the primary alterations will be made only at the joints. So testing could begin at Morton Thiokol's Brigham City, Utah, plant later this month. But starting from scratch is still under consideration. Says Thomas: "The solid-rocket industry is to provide, by the end of October, a clean-sheet design (of solid boosters), which means that they are not constrained to existing hardware." Rebuilding the existing boosters, however, now seems the most likely solution, especially since it has the best chance of meeting NASA's current takeoff...
...embroiled in a fierce three-way battle. And the travails of the CBS Morning News have become a corporate embarrassment. After trying everything but food stamps to help the third-rated broadcast, the network announced that it would remove the show from the news division and start from scratch in January with a new, as yet undetermined, program for the time period...
Oblivious to the thunderheads that gather above her, Roberta Blackgoat, 69, an elder of the Navajo tribe, stoops with a stick to scratch a rectangle in the northern Arizona desert. Beneath this sandy soil her ancestors for five generations have buried the umbilical cords of their newborn, a ritual affirmation of their link to this harsh and haunting land. Today, however, a land dispute with a neighboring tribe threatens to uproot Blackgoat and more than 10,000 other Navajo in a U.S. Government eviction unrivaled since the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans during World...
Computers are also being used to create entire images from scratch. For effects like the stained-glass man in Young Sherlock Holmes, all the visual elements of the figure--size, shape and surface characteristics--are fed into a computer, along with such data as camera angles and light sources. The computer then uses this information to construct an image. Simple geometrical shapes are relatively easy to create, but the process is far more difficult for complicated figures. The stained-glass man, for instance, took four people some four months to create...