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...underbelly. Only a few tiles were gouged and chipped, apparently by pebbles and other desert debris kicked up by the wheels after touchdown. After an initial going-over at Edwards Air Force Base, the shuttle will be placed atop a modified Boeing 747 for a slow, two-day piggyback return to Cape Canaveral, where the ship will be refitted for a second launch, probably in September. The astronauts will be Joe Engle, 48, and Richard Truly, 43, this mission's back-up crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Touchdown, Columbia! | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...Some Girls languishing on tape somewhere, facing an unfamiliar time urgency (Billy Wyman is 42 and Keith Moon is dead) and a new solo ambition on Richards' part, the Stones have turned to the single as a way to introduce fresh music without the agony of launching an album piggyback on Some Girls. More can probably be expected in the new year...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Two From Mick and Keef | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

Researchers must develop techniques to separate insulin from the piggyback molecule, to produce larger quantities of insulin, and to produce human insulin rather than rat insulin, he said...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: Harvard Group Produces Insulin From Bacteria | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

Gilbert said that to insure the insulin would be excreted. the researchers inserted the insulin gene next to a gene for a protein the bacteria normally excreted. The insulin molecules rode "piggyback" on the excreted protein molecules across the bacterial membrane...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: Harvard Group Produces Insulin From Bacteria | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

...cold, and where they dropped of hunger or cold or exhaustion, there they lay. There were the wheelbarrows, piled high with family goods, father pushing, mother pulling, children walking. Old ladies hobbled with bound feet; sometimes young men carried their mothers piggyback on their shoulders. No one stopped. If children cried over the body of a father or a mother, they were passed, soundlessly. I was seeing people in full flight, where no armed man pursued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of History | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

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