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...chewed remnants. These lion dancers, however, flung the shredded lettuce far into the dining hall, much to the surprise of the crowd. "I've seen a lot of Chinese New Year parades and a lot of lion dances," said Mark Chen '04, who is from the San Francisco Bay area, "and this was about as entertaining as any of those...
...something those sensitive souls in the Astronaut Office have also referred to as "the Dead-Guy Test." The trick is to see if one astronaut can drag another astronaut, either dead or severely incapacitated - from micrometeoroid, aneurysm, whatever the case may be - from one end of the shuttle payload bay to the other, then into the airlock. They've done it in the large pool where spacewalkers practice, but want to be sure it can be done in space without any extra tools...
...toughest job on this mission? That probably would be Marsha Ivins, the veteran astronaut who will use the shuttle's robotic arm to lift the 28-foot Destiny module from the shuttle's payload bay and move it into position on the space-station. Ivins will have only about two inches of clearance as she lifts the silver cylinder from its berth, then she has to rotate it, flip it over 180 degrees and put it in its place. Once that's done, she retrieves a docking port from where she previously parked it and puts it on Destiny...
...more diverse markets?wooing international conferences with an impressive $350 million convention center, courting China's growing cadre of affluent travelers by opening a marketing office in Beijing, and seeking ever more extravagant ways to indulge the whims of dotcom millionaires from Seattle and the San Francisco Bay area...
...UNITED STATES Busy Courts As military officials said they would upgrade and extend prison facilities at Guantánamo Bay, a Los Angeles court heard the first legal challenge to the detention of 158 prisoners held there. District Judge Howard Matz gave government lawyers until Jan. 31 to respond to the petition, which claims the detentions violate international law and the U.S. Constitution. In Virginia, "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, charged with supporting terrorism, made his first appearance in a federal court and was remanded in custody until...