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Jarred Astronauts. Failure of the third-stage rocket engine to restart later in the mission was tentatively traced to a broken line that supplied hydrogen to the ignition system. Without an ignition flame, the engine could not be restarted. To reduce the possibility of future breaks in the stainless-steel fuel lines, flexible joints in the lines will be either eliminated or greatly strengthened...
Chilling is no overstatement, for Judd's works, commercially fabricated of Plexiglas, anodized aluminum, stainless steel Or galvanized iron have all the cosy warmth and intimacy of an assembly line or a bank vault. Still, the gallerygoers strolling among them seem to derive considerable visual satisfaction from the myriad reflections and subtler shadows cast by their repetitive surfaces. If they care to disobey the rules, moreover, and meditate on the symbolism of Judd's boxes, the possibilities are endless. What is a box, they say, if not a coffin, a house, a treasure chest? As for that series...
...nervous until I started to scrub and had my work to do, and then I hadn't time to be nervous," says Peggy. The big moment that she remembers most clearly was seeing "the Prof," as she calls Barnard, carrying in the donor heart, in a stainless-steel pan. When he removed Louis Washkansky's heart, Barnard put this in a pan and handed it to Nurse Jordaan. This moment had no emotional impact. The heart seemed like just another organ to be sent to the pathology department-but in this case, the next stop was the hospital...
DESIGN Object Lesson in Beauty When future archaeologists excavate the ruins of Los Angeles and New York, they are more likely to judge the 20th century's standards of beauty by shards of Corning Ware, martini mix ers and stainless-steel subway turnstiles than by whatever fragments of painting and statuary survive. Yet the average American takes the artifacts of every day use for granted. He rarely appre ciates the well-designed objects and manages to ignore the ugly ones...
...still become infected just where the stitches were placed. Lord Lister, father of antisepsis and asepsis, knew this almost a century ago, and tried soaking his sutures in phenol (carbolic acid) to make them active as germ killers. But the effect wore off too soon. Surprisingly, even modern-day stainless steel sutures are almost as likely to be the site of an infection a few days after an operation...