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...that seats the pilot and a scientist, and its nine reversible thrusters allow it to move in any direction or hover in place. Cameras and lights are mounted on the outside, as are racks to hold buckets for samples grasped by the robotic arm or sucked up by a vacuum tube...
...exercise required close coordination between earth and space. Astronauts Sally Ride and Mary Cleave, who are experienced with the robot arm, practiced flipping a replica of the switch at Mission Control. Other technicians tested duplicates of the manipulators in a special vacuum chamber to make sure they would withstand the airless chill of outer space...
...however, mindful that their 27 percent of the Assembly counts for far more in this one moment when a two-thirds majority is required than it will ever count for again, are digging in their heels. And so, the deadlock persists, and threatens to create a long-term power vacuum...
...times," he says?during the Cultural Revolution (when he was sent to farm peanuts in the countryside), when he went to the U.S. to study and when he returned to China and realized that all his American M.B.A. lessons couldn't be applied back home. "There's a belief vacuum in China, which means that many people only believe in money," Huang says. "That means there are con artists everywhere. They will cook their books. They will lie during presentations." As China's experiment in what he calls "raw capitalism" carries on, the re-education of Comrade Huang no doubt...
...escalation of conflict virtually inevitable. Similarly, anyone who has read Lenin’s political writings—most noticeably his schizophrenic diatribe “How to Organize Competition”—can see that the Communist terror in Russia did not come out of a vacuum; the leaders of the revolution did exactly what they said they were going to do, which was to “cleanse Russia of all sorts of dangerous insects...