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...those who survived attacks by the Unabomber, the prospect of a trial evokes feelings ranging from dread to relief. University of Colorado engineering professor John Hauser, who was an Air Force pilot and aspiring astronaut when he was injured in a May 1985 bombing at Berkeley, says the arrest of a suspect and the halt to the bombings meant more to him than the trial. "If having the trial over means that I could fly jets again and pursue those paths, I'd say, 'Hey, great! Cool!'" he told TIME. "But it's not going to bring my hand back...
...former J.F.K. press secretary and international oddball, presents Gaddafi as a multifaceted Arab and Islamic figure too long typecast as a one-dimensional thug in the West. The book delivers an eclectic mix of Gaddafi essays and short stories. You can curl up with The Suicide of the Astronaut, the dictator's winsome tale of a space traveler who explores the moon only to find upon his return to earth that his life is empty. Salinger and Canadian publisher ALAIN STANKE clinched the book deal with Gaddafi not long ago in a tent at the maximum leader's army barracks...
...that focused the world's attention on Mir--and on Foale. While Tsibliyev and his fellow Russian Alexander Lazutkin returned to Earth last August--having been relieved by two fresh cosmonauts--Foale did not get his ride home until a few weeks ago, when the shuttle Atlantis ferried up astronaut David Wolf to relieve...
Several weeks earlier, before Foale replaced astronaut Jerry Linenger aboard Mir, the TV camera had quit at the last minute in a practice run, and Tsibliyev--one of the space agency's best pure pilots--had narrowly averted disaster. Now, with Foale onboard, the TV system once again operating and Progress stabilized several miles away, ground control ordered Tsibliyev to try the same exercise again. "This is a bad business, Sasha," Tsibliyev said to Lazutkin as he picked at his food...
...David Wolf, an American astronaut aboard the Russian space station Mir, on a Texas law passed in June which allows registered voters to cast ballots from space. Wolf will transmit his vote via e-mail, and a Board of Elections worker will punch a ballot by hand with the astronaut's choices...