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...astronauts through the fabrication of attachments resembling flyswatters for the arm. While a ground team experimented with a duplicate of the arm, Discovery's "swat" team employed such mundane equipment as Swiss Army knives and a roll of duct tape to turn some plastic tubing, wire, a metal sunshade frame and plastic notebook covers into tools. The makeshift instruments, they hoped, would catch the trigger, initiating a 45-minute sequence that would culminate in the firing of the LEASAT's propulsion rocket...
...resorting to the Bethesda letter, Reagan and his staff were trying to have it both ways. The White House was dissatisfied with the formal nature of the 25th Amendment but was following the constitutional procedures. Fielding and Meese tried to frame the letter so that Reagan's delegation of power would appear as a single, isolated act based on a unique set of circumstances. But Reagan's situation is not unique, and the letter does set a precedent in practical, if not legal terms. New York University Law Professor Bernard Schwartz says that the problem of presidential illnesses...
This cool spring afternoon, the salvation site is suburban. One hundred yards from the Merritt Parkway, 1˝ rush hours from Manhattan, the frame of a born-again Babcock barn climbs skyward in Fairfield, Conn. After eight years in their 200-year-old farmhouse, Advertising Executive Rick Baker and his wife Cathy called on Babcock to erect a colonial barn addition, which will hold a new living room and a cluster of bedrooms. They wanted more space, but they also wanted to respect the region's history...
...contrast, neither team could find its rhythm in the third game. Although Harvard only posted a meager .195 hitting percentage, Rutgers practically gave the frame away with a .146 rate of its own. Still, the Crimson would barely escape with a 31-29 victory to keep the match alive for one more game...
Madick struck out the side in the second and fourth innings on her way to a season-high 13 Ks, extending her team lead in the category. She never flagged as the game wore on, fanning two in the final frame...