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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...
...home. "Once you've lost your privacy," Graham observed, "you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing." That loss touches everyone: "It's hard on the children because they're looked at and watched everywhere." For more than 20 years, Graham's good friends George H.W. and Barbara Bush invited him and his wife every summer to Kennebunkport, Maine. They were very grateful when he took a walk on the beach one day in 1985 with their eldest son. George W. Bush said that encounter put him on a path to a new relationship with Jesus and "planted...
Kavli sought the advice of Gross, who heads U.C. Santa Barbara's renowned Institute of Theoretical Physics, about endowing professorships. "I convinced him that was an expensive and relatively ineffective way to make an impact," says Gross. They hit on the idea of establishing Kavli Institutes instead, with the first grant going to Gross's school, where much of it was used to build a badly needed wing to house the growing particle-physics institute...
...Barbara Park's series about impish first-grader Junie B. Jones has caught some criticism from parents for the heroine's lazy syntax and defiant antics (she once played a head-butting game), but controversy over high-energy female protagonists is nothing new in the world of children's literature. Here are a few young ladies who have been winning over children while bucking the grownups in the past 50 years...
...popular collection of 940 Army Corps of Engineers projects, including $3.5 billion for post-Katrina Louisiana and $2 billion for the Florida Everglades. The House passed it Wednesday night in a 381-40 squeaker, and the Senate vote should be similar; archliberal Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer of California and archconservative ranking Republican James Inhofe of Oklahoma can't agree on the color of the sky, but they're both pledging to override a veto...