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...mission's undisputed star was Voyager, a distinctive, almost ethereal craft, whose shell weighs only 938 lbs.; add engines and other equipment, and it is still shy of a ton -- lighter than most small cars. The rest of its takeoff weight of nearly 6,200 lbs. (which will be closer to 12,000 lbs. for the around-the-world flight) is mostly fuel, distributed evenly in 17 tanks, located in the wings, fuselage and "outriggers" that flank the cabin...
...such a marathon would clearly be a lightweight, efficient, flying fuel tank. Eighteen months and many sketches later, when Voyager assumed its basic shape, it was a textbook example of featherweight design and construction. The shell is made from quarter-inch-thick panels of Hexcel honeycomb, a resin-coated, paper-like polymer, covered with graphite fibers embedded in epoxy. The panels weigh just 4 oz. per sq. ft. but have remarkable tensile strength; the ends of the craft's thin, 110-ft. single wing can flex up and down as much as 35 ft. without breaking...
...remains, many apparently buried in unmarked graves shortly after the battle, were discovered after a fire burned off the underbrush in 1983. Subsequent studies of uncovered bullets and shell casings indicated that Custer's 210 troopers were overwhelmed not just by numbers, as is usually thought, but also by superior firepower. Many of the thousands of Indians were equipped with Winchester and Henry repeating rifles, while the 7th Cavalry fought with outdated single-shot Springfields...
...leading brands: Contac (made by SmithKline Beckman), and Sinutab and Benadryl (both made by Warner-Lambert). Nearly all over-the-counter drugs are two-piece capsules, although the single- piece model, used for some vitamins, is perhaps safer. If anyone were to try ; to pierce a single-piece shell, it would probably leak and be very difficult to seal again. In tampering with two-piece capsules, a criminal might be able to separate the two parts, contaminate the medication and later put the pieces back together. So far, though, single-piece capsules can hold only liquid drugs. Reason: the medication...
That day and into the night, Bozzotto pranced around the Holyoke Center courtyard in his Local 26 jacket as if he were Lenin himself. He appeared on television screens and in newspapers across the Boston area, bashing Harvard and Shell Oil for their connections to South Africa. His unconventional methods surprised some in the Harvard community, angered others and bewildered most...