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the ba™ jation THE BATTALION Monday, April 15, 2002 Kstronauts rewire station vhere malevolei • e d to attempt i malicious- 51 so unwarrE •tom’s expresst the contempla: 1 of third graj nents and ft- he instruments; the performan; i Fast and then ion. (Grade: F- ■Thomas Phi von Tony award! n and Andre* ance, has been at a won a Goldens om Heaven and F appearances on / McBeal. role was in Am un or I'd never 'ears," she told Pa' ■year-olds loved: 10-year-olds.'' i is :om- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. I\P) — Two space walking Istronauts successfully rewired ne international space station on unday to extend the reach of its obot ami — via a railroad. It was the third spacewalk y the visiting crew of space huttle Atlantis, with a fourth nd final excursion planned uesday to finish installing a 4-foot girder equipped with a ailcar and track. Steven Smith and Rex Valheim floated out into the lackness of space Sunday and •leased the clamp that had :mporarily held the girder in lace on the space station labo- atory, before the structure was olted down. Then they began ie tricky connector work. “These cables are again ticking together,” Smith said. It’s a little scary taking them part because they’re fiber iptics.” By rerouting power, data nd video cables, the space- valkers paved the way for the station’s 58-foot robot arm. designed to move like an inch- kvonn, to step onto the railcar and be moved from one part of the outpost to another. But first, a base for the arm must be installed on the car during the next shuttle flight in June." The ambidextrous arm, with a hand on each end, is needed to It’s a little scary taking [ the cables] apart because they’re fiber optics. — Steven Smith astronaut assemble the space station as it continues to grow. Over the next few years, eight more girders with more track will be attached to the segment delivered last week by Atlantis. The framework ulti mately will extend 356 feet and support four sets of solar wings as well as radiators and science experiments. The $190 million railcar — with the robotic construction crane and cargo riding inside — will be able to traverse the entire framework. NASA plans to test the empty railcar Monday, moving it back and forth along the track that runs the length of the newly attached girder. Its top speed is one inch per second, but engineers say they will stay well below that. During Sunday’s spacewalk. Smith and Walheim released launch-restraint bolts on the rail- car in preparation for Monday’s trial run. They also admired the vista 240 miles below. “Beautiful place we live,” Smith observed. The girder and its railcar — totaling $790 million — are considered the second-most complicated section of the space station, surpassed only by the lab itself. More than 10 miles of wiring and 664 feet of plumb ing run through the massive aluminum beam. It also has four computers and four Global Positioning System satellite antennas. Taxes Continued from page 1 tens of millions in between. High- income people tend to have more complicated returns that invite more audits; about 0.69 percent of all these returns were audited in 2001. Those making under $25,000 usu ally have simple returns, yet about 0.40 percent were audited last year. That is almost twice the rate of tax payers in the middle-income range and is largely attributable to the earned income tax credit, effectively a low-income refund program on which the IRS has focused attention to cut down on mistakes and fraud. When audits related to that tax credit are not included, the rate for those earning under $25,000 drops to W5 percent, the IRS says. Mideast Continued from page 1 facade and the walls were blackened with bullet marks. A senior aide, Saeb Erekat said Arafat stood by his com mitments, including an end to violence. But, Erekat said after the three-hour meeting, that meant “once the Israelis complete the withdrawal we will, as Palestinians, then carry out our obligations.” Arafat complained bitterly and extensively to Powell about Israel's military thrust into Palestinian-held towns and villages, and especially its actionspn Jenin and a refugee camp in the town. President Bush has demanded a pullback right away, but Sharon refused to provide a timetable when he saw Powell on Friday in Jerusalem. They met again briefly Sunday night in Tel Aviv. Powell, in a short statement to reporters, called his meet ing with Arafat useful and constructive. 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