The machines move a narrowly focused beam of high-intensity radiation very quickly across the body, and David Brenner, director of the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University Medical Center, says he worries about mechanical malfunctions that could cause the beam to stop in one place for even a few seconds, resulting in greater radiation exposure.
Aside from a couple of technical glitches and one late entrance, the show unfolded fairly smoothly, without any of the obvious accidents, injuries or mechanical malfunctions that turned "Spider-Man" into an unusually vivid news story (for Broadway) and frequent punch line for late-night comics throughout the winter.
Of course: the problem, soon resolved, attributed to the mechanical malfunctions that beset life on the boards now and again.
"It's part of your submission, I think," Justice Scalia said, "that there is no wrong when a machine does not count those ballots that it's not supposed to count?" In other words, Justice Scalia was reminding Mr. Olson that the Bush position was that undercounts caused by voter error, as opposed to a mechanical malfunction, were not ballots that qualified for counting under any standard.
Mr. Katz, who described the situation as "grave," said that "there was a malfunction in the process, a malfunction that has been dealt with".
If investigators determined that a mechanical malfunction caused the crash, he said, it would raise "very fundamental questions" about the future of the Osprey program.
Grissom had maintained that the hatch blew without his input; the fact that he had no bruising was seen as evidence that he had not blown the hatch early and sunk his capsule, but that it was a mechanical malfunction.
"That aircraft suffered a catastrophic mechanical malfunction the specifics of which I don't want to speculate on," said Capt.
Yuri Ilyin, the deputy head of the Almaty emergency department, said there were no signs that the crash was caused by a mechanical malfunction.
