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...engineers have done over the past two years is work to improve the contours, and the application of the foam, in the hope that no piece of foam that does break off exceeds .03 lbs., the weight at which the foam, at that acceleration, could begin to present the danger of serious damage. So what surprised NASA isn't that they lost a few bits of foam, but that one of the pieces that fell off was very big: Almost as big as the piece that killed Columbia, which weighed 1.67 pounds...
...large piece that fell off came from a 37-foot ridge that runs down the side of the tank protecting cables and fuel lines. All their testing had told them they had minimized this danger, but they hadn't - and the reason remains a mystery...
...absurdity of flying newspapers and nine-handed clocks is like a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. But it’s also like, well, life. Although Rowling’s plot has been, for the most part, mapped out since 1997—she forecasted danger before even Richard Clarke—she says she writes each book fresh as she goes, so it’s fair to call this what it is: post-9/11 fiction at its best...
...from Arab countries--have traveled to Iraq to fight in what has become a theater of inspiration for the jihadist drama of faith. A handful are known to have trickled back to Europe already. Western intelligence services fear that more are on the way and will pose a bigger danger than the returnees from Afghanistan in the 1980s and '90s, the global jihad's first generation of terrorists. The anxiety is justified; the fighters in Iraq are, as the CIA has observed, getting better on-the-job training than was available in al-Qaeda's camps in Afghanistan...
...that it has drawn the ire of a New York City--based hedge fund, Paulson & Co., which alleges that the initial deal wasn't fairly valued. And some private-equity firms are starting to fret that the European buyout scene has grown so fast that it's in danger of overheating. "It's like a perfect storm," says Carlyle's Millet, who is worried about the increased amounts of debt and dwindling returns. "All the ingredients are there for a big blowup...