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...supposed to be another space spectacular, the kind NASA used to pull off like clockwork: astronauts aboard the shuttle Atlantis had plans to dangle a half-ton satellite on a 20.1-km (12 1/2-mile) tether, forming the biggest single orbiting object in history. But like so many of the space agency's ambitious projects lately, this one didn't quite work out. The Italian-made satellite rose properly from the shuttle on a 10-m (39-ft.) boom, but the astronauts couldn't pull out its auxiliary power cord. When they finally got the cord out and began unreeling...
...papers of James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. For the National Archives, which is seven blocks from the White House, the single most precious item would be the Declaration of Independence, followed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Though the National / Archives building has a 55-ton steel-and-concrete vault on the premises, the scenario calls for the evacuation of these and other documents, probably by helicopter, to an underground facility, if there is adequate warning time. A second group of papers would leave the capital by truck sometime after the so- called Freedom Documents...
Another enticement dangled by Memphis is the offer of funds for restoration. For Ramesses, the center reconstructed a 47-ton colossus of Ramesses the Great at a cost of $125,000, then barged it over from Memphis, Egypt. For Splendors, it has not only restored many of the objects, but has also given seed money to establish a conservation laboratory at the Topkapi Palace Museum...
...voracious appetite. But fossilized claw, skull and jaw bones found in a quarry in eastern Utah point to a dinosaur that, while smaller than Tyrannosaurus, was probably a whole lot nastier. Labeled the "Utahraptor" until a more suitable scientific name can be found, the 7-m (20-ft.), one-ton beast is the largest specimen ever seen of a variety of dinosaur known as the Velociraptor, an upright, fast-moving carnivore that sported an enormous claw on the back of each foot for slashing at prey. It was, according to one researcher, "the wolverine of the Cretaceous...
...past, Otisca was approached by Japanese companies. "The Japanese have a ton of coal/water slurries," says Keller. "They're making it in Tokyo Bay and shipping it by the tankerload to the north islands." So why not sell out to the Japanese? "I'm very interested in having this be an American accomplishment," says Smith. "One of the purposes in my wanting to start a business was to show that the American thing can be done...