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Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which conceived and launched Skylab six years ago, took comfort in the mathematics of probabilities. Some 500 fragments of the huge space workshop will be dispersed over an area 4,000 miles long and 100 miles wide, a scattering that the scientists call, with anthropomorphic archness, Skylab's "footprint." Moreover, on each of Skylab's 90-minute orbits of the earth, nearly 67 minutes, or 75%, is spent over water. What all that means, contend NASA'S statisticians, is that the chance of any remnant striking a human being is only...
NASA, however, was not taking the potential danger at all lightly. One of the heaviest pieces of Skylab, a two-ton lead-lined vault used for film storage, is capable of digging a hole 5 ft. wide and 100 ft. deep. And within the band of Skylab's orbital paths lie some of the world's most populous areas, including all of the U.S., much of Europe, India and China. Indeed, the chance of debris falling in some city of at least 100,000 inhabitants is a sobering 1 in 7. Only 10% of the earth's inhabitants...
...women. The daily eight-hour sessions were taught by four Spanish-speaking subway policemen who took a four-day cram course in Rassias' method, plus four Dartmouth students. To prevent distractions, the New Yorkers were isolated most of the time at Brown Hall, but there was still some wide-eyed mixing between students and police...
...Student Assembly's constitution, which over half the students ratified in a college-wide referendum in 1978, reserves seats for women, Hispanics, Asian-Americans, blacks, native Americans, and Puerto Ricans...
...decaying "garbage can" is expected to spread this space debris into a zone 4000 miles long and 100 miles wide...