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...working with Woody Allen on his next film, Melinda and Melinda...
...flight of SpaceShipOne--brainchild of aerospace whiz Burt Rutan and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen--was hailed as a giant leap toward opening space flight to tourists. Indeed, the craft was impressively small and lightweight (about the size of an SUV) and relatively cheap (about $20 million, compared with the $400 million-plus that NASA drops on each space-shuttle launch). But don't call your travel agent just yet. Melvill made it to just the edge of space, only about a quarter of the way to the International Space Station. And he ran into a scary glitch: during...
...Senator Jon Corzine, who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. G.O.P. leaders insist that the Democrats' hope is a pipe dream. Most of the seats up for grabs are in G.O.P.-heavy states that Bush won handily in 2000. "They simply cannot blow away the reality," says Senator George Allen, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
...Since Yuri Gagarin first blasted into the heavens in 1961, manned space flight has been a strictly government-run affair. That ended on June 21 when MIKE MELVILL flew to an altitude of 100.1 km on SpaceShipOne, a private rocket-powered plane funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. After gliding safely to earth, Melvill was more exultant than eloquent. He climbed atop the dart-shaped craft and whooped, "Yeeee-haaah...
...WMDs--later, those words have returned to slam-dunk Tenet. It doesn't help that the controversies over Iraq and 9/11 follow on intelligence failures stretching back almost to the beginning of Tenet's reign. In his seven years as director of Central Intelligence--only the legendary Allen Dulles served longer--Tenet revived morale at an agency devastated by post--cold war budget cuts and a sharp drop in recruitment. But he also presided over blunders that included the agency's failure to foresee in 1998 that India would test an atomic device, and the mistaken identification one year later...