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...panel's most distressing discovery was a stray steel chip, perhaps a burr from a screw, in an exhaust vent of the suit's oxygen supply system. If the fragment had been in the pure oxygen area and caused a spark (by hitting a wall, for example), it might have touched off a catastrophic flash fire, killing Lenoir and possibly ripping a fatal hole in Columbia's sides as well. In fact, a suit did catch fire in a test at Houston two years ago; fortunately no one was wearing it. It was so incinerated that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Some Unsuitable Workmanship | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

Young's love for animals began long before he laid eyes on the assorted fauna of Harvard Square. The son of a New York filmmaker and a free-lance photographer. Young grew up in a family that took under its wing everything from orphaned racoons and birds to stray kinkajous and bush babies, all of whom made ready subjects for photographs. "We never went out and bought anything," Young explains. "We just took in animals we found or that the [Bronx] Zoo unloaded on my sisters who worked there. We only kept them to rehabilitate them and set them free...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Wild Kingdom | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...things are happening. I once was known as a great prognosticator. The Great Prognosticator, they used to call me. Now look where I am Fallen to second place in the chart. Limping along at 60 percent accuracy. Suffering sleepless nights. Having stray dogs turn the other way as I walk by. I just won't settle for it anymore...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Unrequited Rivalry | 10/30/1982 | See Source »

...menu included shrimp cocktail and steak, and Bok was careful to insure that meal-time conversation did not stray from social chatter to serious negotiation. Some city councilors complained after the gathering that discussions had been too limited and that University officials would not respond to general questions of policy on broad Harvard-city issues...

Author: By Joseph Garcia and Steven R. Swartz, S | Title: The Big Summer News Around Town | 9/21/1982 | See Source »

...even as the national political climate has forced ABLE to become more political, Kronick says the organization cannot afford to stray far from its function of solving the problems of particular disabled students in their existence in the Harvard community. ABLE continues to work on the bread-and-butter issues of disabled student life--transportation to classes, getting classes moved to accessible rooms when necessary and the like. In doing this, quiet lobbying is usually a sufficient technique, Kronick says. Although the group has counseled people on filing complaints with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, she says...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen and Errol T. Louis, S | Title: Minority Groups Now Use Subtler Tactics | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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