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...when Steve Chesley, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, checked Spahr's calculations, he came up with a 1-in-4 probability of a strike. "It was a responsible analysis," says Chapman. "It wasn't mistaken in any obvious way." There was one hitch: the asteroid's projected trajectory was based on only four observations over a one-hour period, hardly enough to be definitive. It would take another look to nail down its path for sure...
Usually a threatening asteroid is spotted years in advance. This time, with just days to spare, astronomers had to get their second look right away. So Chesley did some more calculations to find what's called the keyhole--the tiny region of sky where 2004 AS1 should be if the orbit was correct--and put those coordinates out on the Internet. "It clearly wasn't time to make an announcement," says Chapman, who emphatically denies a BBC report that he was on the verge of telephoning the White House that night. "But if we still didn't know the next...
...with only two masks a week," says Tseng. "They should be getting a new one every four hours. It's not good enough." Not good enough for Taiwanese, or for the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), apparently. The CDC announced on Thursday that a staffer named Chesley Richards, one of nine Americans in Taiwan assisting authorities with the epidemic, had developed SARS-like symptoms and would be flown home immediately?bucking WHO recommendations that suspected SARS patients not be moved around, for fear of increasing the risk of transmission...
...dollar amounts. "You all pumped up for the event?" he asked Niranjan Shah, an engineering-firm executive in Chicago. "You got your 100 done?" Pause. "No, you're right. You don't have a choice." O'Keefe found sport in the next call as he dialed Cincinnati lawyer Stan Chesley. "Ten bucks you can't close this guy," he dared McAuliffe. McAuliffe liked the bet, nodded and picked up the line. "Stan, have you got 50 out there for me? That's all I'm asking." McAuliffe's face lit up. "I love you. You'll get it in before...
...expert at conveying her enthusiasm in the classroom," said Ian M. Chesley, "and she's dedicated to creating an atmosphere of open and creative intellectual exchange...