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The Cultural Rhythms show is always one of the most eagerly-anticipated events on the Harvard calendar, featuring a variety of different performances. The host is carefully selected on the basis of both artistic achievement and charitable work. By any measure, Queen Latifah is a superstar in both categories. She?...
But there were problems with the theory. First of all, the foam may seem as hard as a brick, but it isn't nearly as heavy. Even if the debris had been moving at 1,000 m.p.h. when it struck the shuttle's left side--about twice as fast as...
Late in the week, the agency began speculating about a far less obvious cause of the accident: atmospheric turbulence. As the shuttle descends, air moves smoothly over the wings until, at about 150,000 ft., it begins to churn and swirl. As long as the shuttle is moving slowly enough...
As is the case in all investigations, officials want to point not merely to the hardware responsible for the accident but also to the people responsible for mission safety. In 1990 a NASA-commissioned study looked into the problem of tile damage and warned of some of the very problems...
The business of turning over all these rocks is getting under way. Immediately after the accident, the agency announced the formation of an in-house panel to sift through the evidence and come up with answers. Critics howled that no agency--particularly not one in such hot water--should be...