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Because the early hours in orbit are critical in judging human reaction to weightlessness, the scientist-astronauts got a fast start on their biomedical program. They took blood samples from one another (Payload Specialist Byron Lichtenberg, as the chief bloodletter, became known as "the vampire"), underwent eye tests, lifted steel balls, were flung around in a sledlike contraption called a body-restraint system, and even endured electric shocks. Not surprisingly, the orbital guinea pigs complained that the tests were making them ill, although the torture had a medical purpose: to learn more about the nausea, headaches and general lethargy, known...
...October truck bombing in Beirut and the terrorist blast that left a gaping hole in a wall at the U.S. Capitol. Among the steps taken for presidential security: guard dogs were assigned to sniff all cars and trucks for explosives as they pass through the 8½-ft. steel gates. The sand-filled trucks are only temporary. The Secret Service is studying the possibility of installing fortified gates that will serve as a more permanent, and more decorative, defense against potential car bombs...
...crewmen scrambled into the lifeboat. "We were 500 meters away when there was a second explosion," said First Mate George Galakopoulos. "It cut the ship in two. There was so much smoke I couldn't see anything." The crew was saved, but the Antigoni and its cargo of steel plate from Japan sank quickly...
...sagged and the 97-year-old company seemed to have lost its sense of direction, Sears has found its way. During the first nine months of 1983, profits shot up 89%, to $759.5 million, while revenue surged 18%, to $25.1 billion. Around the Sears Tower, the 110-story black steel-and-glass skyscraper in downtown Chicago that still bears the title of the world's tallest building, a mood as merry as Christmas exists. Not only is Sears' bold expansion into financial services and real estate paying handsome dividends, the firm's merchandise group, which once seemed...
...Coldwell, Banker, a national real estate firm. When Sears was struggling to get out of its 1970s slump, a strategic planning committee looked at diversification. Recalls President Archie Boe, 62, who will retire next March: "We studied every industry in the U.S." After looking at areas as diverse as steel and automobiles, Sears decided to go into financial services...