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...many things early and easily. Photojournalist on four continents. Writer with a keen eye and the instinct not to wound. Later, wife of French filmmaker Louis Malle (Pretty Baby, Au Revoir les Enfants) and nurturer of a tricoastal marriage in California, New York and France...
Kristen E. Poole, a fourth-year English student, was a victim of enrollment uncertainty last year. When the course she expected to teach wound up with fewer students than expected, Poole lost her job and had to find a new position within 24 hours...
...boom, but the astronauts couldn't pull out its auxiliary power cord. When they finally got the cord out and began unreeling the satellite, the tether that kept it attached to the shuttle paid out for about 260 m (850 ft.) -- and then jammed, like a badly wound fishing reel. It jammed again when they tried to pull it in, and rather than risk a spacewalk to try and loosen it, ground controllers decided to pull the satellite back inside...
Attempts to defraud the U.S. government in a sale of military jet engines to Israel wound up costing General Electric $69 million. In a Cincinnati federal court, GE's aircraft-engine division settled civil and criminal charges of conspiring with an Israeli air force general to bill the Pentagon for fictitious parts and testing equipment. A GE manager stationed in Israel between 1984 and 1989 blew the whistle on his employer two years...
...that did nothing to improve its image, New York City sent off 2,200 tons of garbage to the heartland last month in search of a welcoming landfill. Alas, the detritus, occupying 30 railcars, was rejected in three states. After a 3,000-mile trip, the bug-infested cargo wound up back home, destined for the Staten Island landfill...