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...University presidents from across the country condemned the proposed boycott in an advertisement in The New York Times last week declaring, "Boycott Israeli Universities? Boycott Ours, Too!" The petition, organized by the American Jewish Committee, featured a statement by Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, a noted free speech scholar, and was signed by numerous others including the presidents of MIT and Princeton University...
...less tangibly but still importantly, the loss of national pride. "The management is much different than it was four years ago," Florida Sen. Bill Nelson assured TIME. "I think they have the toughness if they have to make the tough decisions." The old NASA style, harshly critiqued by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board and summed up by Nelson as "arrogant," was susceptible to scheduling and political pressures, but easily and disastrously shrugged off safety concerns from engineers on the line, leading directly, Nelson says, to the two shuttle losses...
Fifty-eight seconds after launch, a fragment of ice or insulating foam once again broke away from the shuttle's external fuel tank and - once again - left a deep divot in the ship's insulating tiles. It was foam damage that killed the shuttle Columbia in February 2003, when superheated gases generated during reentry entered the ship through a breach in the insulation. Ever since then, astronauts have given their spacecraft a close visual inspection upon reaching orbit to look for any troublesome chips. On Sunday, a 3D laser imager attached to Endeavour's robotic arm revealed what could...
...fabric insulation below. It cuts across at least two tiles and perhaps a third. There is nothing at all good about that kind of break. The wheel well is a particularly vulnerable spot, since damage there can provide easy access to the fragile innards of the ship. It was Columbia's left wheel well that first showed signs of overheating in the lead-up to the fatal accident, as searing plasma leaked into the vessel's interior. What's more, the greater the number of tiles damaged by debris, the greater the jagged area exposed to the force of rentry...
...District of Columbia and the state of Virginia have passed mandatory-vaccination laws in order to cut down on some of the 5.5 million new HPV infections each year nationwide. At least half of all sexually active men and women will get HPV during their lifetime, though about 90% of HPV infections clear naturally within two years. But the virus is more critical for women, 80% of whom will have had an infection by the time they reach 50. Recurrent infections can lead to cervical cancer, of which there are 12,200 new cases each year, resulting...