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Think Americans stuck in airports have to wait a long time for a flight? Try 22 years. That's how long astronaut Barbara Morgan, 55 - who blasted off Wednesday aboard the shuttle Endeavour for a planned 11-day mission - had to cool her heels before she got her first chance...
...Perhaps the most indicative example of his nuanced approach is that while Specter is routinely critical of Gonzales - even disparaging him to reporters aboard Air Force One last week - he refuses to ask Gonzales to resign. "I'm just not going to call on Gonzales to resign and I'm not going to call on the President to fire him," Specter said in an interview with TIME. "Those are their decisions. I don't want them telling me what to do about what I do and what I say, and I'm not going to do it to them...
...wasn’t just the glamour—I wanted to go to Romania to see where my parents grew up. But the reality of the trip didn’t hit me until I found myself aboard the good ship Delta, noshing on the absurd amount of snacks that my obscenely over-prepared mother had brought...
...Russians claimed a great scientific discovery late last month. An expedition of 50 scientists that spent 45 days aboard the Rossia nuclear ice-breaker found that an underwater ridge (the Lomonosov ridge) directly links Russia's Arctic coast to the North Pole. This, they insist, surely guarantees Russia's rights over a vast Polar territory that also happens to contain some 10 billion tons of oil and natural gas deposits...
...head coach at Union, and Michelle McAteer left plenty of room on the Crimson staff, and with Chu's credentials as a bona fide leader and one of the best players in school history, Stone was more than ready to welcome the two-time Olympian and former co-captain aboard...