Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aerospace correspondent Jerry Hannifin of the planned rendezvous between the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station. "We've never done anything quite like this. Flying over Russia and in range of a Russian control station, the Atlantis crew will maneuver the 100-ton shuttlecraft, with this big docking tunnel sticking 15 feet out of its payload bin, very slowly -- at the rate of an inch per second -- through a forest of antenna and solar arrays. It looks like a big mechanical porcupine with five to ten inches of clearance. The Atlantis crew will ram it into the docking port...
...Baku, capital of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, a malfunctioning electrical cable ignited gases trapped in a subway tunnel, sparking an explosion that killed 288 people and injured 200 more; most of the victims died from carbon-monoxide poisoning. Officials blamed the accident on outdated Soviet equipment...
...then, as six sets of hooks and latches locked into place, an American spaceship and a Russian one were soaring through space together for the first time in two decades. The astronauts and cosmonauts checked to make sure the tunnel-like air lock linking the ships had no leaks. At length, the hatches swung slowly open. Mir's commander, Vladimir Dezhurov, floated through the lock and grasped Gibson's hand in joyous greeting...
...friends did not bicycle all the way: they hitched a ride with a pickup truck as they crossed a tunnel near the Chesapeake Bridge...
...been exonerated in a second suit charging that keyboards marketed by the company causecarpel tunnel syndrome. A U. S. District Court held that neither production defects nor design flaws in keyboards marketed by IBM and Atex were responsible for reporter Larry Lewis' carpel tunnel syndrome. Last month IBM won a similar decision from a Minnesota jury. Lewis, who has been a reporter for 30 years, said he wanted to show that "you can get carpal tunnel from a computer." However, hand surgeon Dr. Morton L. Kasdan says that will be a difficult thing to prove. He says that there...