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...Babakin Space Center, near Moscow, and the Planetary Society in Pasadena, Calif., a think tank founded in 1979 by astronomer Carl Sagan and others. The two groups had long been developing plans for a solar-sail mission but got the cash to make it happen only last year when Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow and head of the media company Cosmos Studios, and Joe Firmage, the founder of USWeb, threw their names and about $4 million behind the effort. "I had talked to people about solar sailing before," says Lou Friedman, former engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena...
...With reporting by Ann Blackman, James Carney, Elaine Shannon and Michael Weisskopf/Washington and John Cloud and Amanda Ripley/New York...
...With reporting by Ann Blackman and Elaine Shannon/Washington and Andrea Sachs/New York
...With reporting by Ann Blackman and John F. Dickerson/Washington
Such skepticism is common in Chillicothe, but it doesn't keep people from supporting Bush's plan. Jo Ann Stauffer, an administrative assistant for the local sheriff, and her husband William, an engineer at Kenworth, would stand to save about $800 from Bush's tax cut. "I trust Bush when he says it's meant for working families," says Jo Ann. The couple has put off a trip to Cocoa Beach, Fla.--their first vacation without the kids--because of economic worries. If the tax cut comes through, Jo Ann says, "we might be able to take that trip...