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Astronaut John Glenn used to dread going to NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. As a rookie pilot in the space agency's Mercury program, the 40-year-old Marine would periodically be required to strap himself into the tiny pod of a spacecraft simulator and wait for technicians to set it spinning in three dimensions at speeds exceeding 30 r.p.m. Using nothing more than a joystick, Glenn would have to bring the tumbling cockpit to heel. If he succeeded, he would continue in the program. If he failed, he could be bilged...
...Miho Museum I.M. Pei is best known for resounding Modernist statements like the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. For this project in the hills of a nature preserve near Kyoto, Japan, he chose literal understatement--80% of the main building is belowground. But first he leads visitors along a wooded pathway, through a tunnel and over a cable suspension bridge, an enchanted path to buried art treasures...
...CLEVELAND: Could the Army have prevented Gulf War syndrome? As argument rages over whether the illness even exists, a transcript turned up Sunday by the Cleveland Plain Dealer shows an Army review board expressing doubt over an experimental drug administered to 8,000 soldiers ? a vaccine, some fear, that caused the widespread post-war health problems in veterans...
Boston police continue to look for Eric's killer as well as for the weapon used in the crime. In the meantime, Eric's former mentors said they still remember him standing in front of Grover Cleveland Middle School at 8:30 a.m., waiting for the counselors to start a new day of camp...