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...Columbia's commander, John Young, 50, it was old hat. During the fiery, jolting liftoff, his pulse hardly climbed above 85 beats a minute; this was, after all, Young's fifth such journey, the most by any American astronaut. Allowed Young: "It shook a little sharper. The vibration was more than what we experienced in the simulator." But the rookie Crippen could barely contain his excitement-his pulse raced to 135-or find the right words to express his emotions. Looking out of Columbia's windows, he said jubilantly, "John's been telling me about...
Nahigian shuffled his fielding lineup at the start of Saturday's game, resulting in a visibly sharper performance all around. In what may have been the key change. Danny Skaff--who had played right field in the three previous games up north--moved to third, a position normally occupied by Paul Chicarello, who shifted to designated hitter...
...Harvard women's fencing team, yesterday's New England Championship marked the climax of a hard-fought season. The meet was one of the most grueling of the year, and the competition some of the toughest,but the swordswomen never looked sharper. In the end they showed their points were all in the right place...
...wish we had cut it earlier and deeper. The problem is that everyone in your political party is very keen on cutting public spending as long as you don't touch their own particular hobbyhorse. We would have been able to cut it much faster and sharper if we hadn't honored the Clegg tribunal [to raise salaries of public service employees to make them comparable with the private sector]. That was an enormous increase. This year the pay to civil servants, local government, nurses is 50% above what it was two years ago. Now they...
...universe (increasing its observable volume 350-fold) and render whatever it reaches visible in exquisite new detail. The space telescope's primary lens-actually a mirror-will measure only 94 in. across, a middling size as large reflecting telescopes go. Yet it will provide images ten times sharper than the biggest instruments on the ground, including the new 236-in. Soviet telescope in the northern Caucasus. The NASA telescope will also be able to pick up celestial objects 50 times dimmer than the faintest ones observable by any giant terrestrial eyes...