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...added that although it took the Crimson “a while to adjust to the speed of the game,” he was happy with the performance of the offense...
...Electrophoresis is slow. You can’t really speed it up,” Church told Reuters News Service this month. “But with a digital camera, you can go as fast as electronics can go.” Church did not return requests for further comment...
...During reentry, the shuttle must slip smoothly through the atmosphere to prevent heat from concentrating in particular spots or turbulence from causing instability. At the fantastic velocities the shuttle achieves-22 times the speed of sound through the upper atmosphere-even such tiny irregularities as the gap filler can lead to both problems...
...investigation has moved with some speed," British antiterrorism-police chief Peter Clarke said Friday, "but it is still continuing." Nonetheless, a lot of loose ends remain. Despite the spectacular arrests, the review of more than 35,000 closed-circuit-television tapes and more than 5,000 leads phoned in by the public on the antiterrorist hot line--police have asked people to program the number into their cell phones--investigators don't have a clear understanding of the dimensions of the twin terrorist plots. British and U.S. officials told TIME that police have not found any forensic link between...
...turns the pilots make are intended to bleed off speed in order to ease the shuttle down to Earth, but they are a lot more complicated than simply slaloming down a ski slope. The spacecraft's engines are shut off for good once it leaves orbit, meaning its descent is powerless. Flying a brick with wings, as the engineers have often called the ship, has a very fine margin of error. Lose your purchase on the air and go into a spin, and there's almost no way to pull out of it. "The attitude needs to be very, very...