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Since nothing this catastrophic ever happened in any of the prior shuttle flights, NASA grew increasingly--and justifiably--confident that the lightweight and durable shielding was the best of an admittedly imperfect set of options. Now there is reason to doubt. "Obviously, the loss of tiles has to be looked at and put to bed," says George Gleghorn, a former chief engineer for TRW's space group and, for six years, a member of a NASA safety-advisory panel...
There is no doubt that John Roberts has all the credentials that a President could ask for in a Supreme Court nominee: the Harvard degrees, the federal clerkships, the government service and the years at a white-shoe Washington law firm. But in the post-Bork age, with the opposition ready to pounce on a nominee's judicial or academic record, Roberts also boasts that most prized feature of a résumé--a relatively short paper trail. For a man widely considered one of the brightest legal minds of his generation, Roberts has made very few of his personal views...
...discomforting truth is that Allied leaders strode unhesitantly into the atomic age. "I regarded the bomb as a military weapon and never had any doubt that it should be used," Truman later wrote. "[N]or did I ever hear the slightest suggestion that we should do otherwise," Winston Churchill added. Nothing in the record contradicts them. Dropping the Bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, was among history's most notorious foregone conclusions...
...Mafia ... [which] concluded that the strongest possible opposition candidate was Benigno Aquino's widow, Corazon. During the precampaign maneuvering, Cardinal Sin met several times with Aquino ... THE PRIMATE REASSURED AQUINO THAT SHE COULD SUCCESSFULLY CHALLENGE MARCOS ... Sin tactfully refrained from endorsing the ticket in public, but there was no doubt about which candidate the church backed. Before the election, the Cardinal sent a letter to all Philippine parishes pointedly instructing the faithful to vote for those who showed 'respect for human rights and life' ... Said one Vatican official ... 'Sin is very highly regarded here, particularly for his keen intelligence...
...said his mentor had encouraged him last year to speak out on evolution. Though the two haven't discussed the subject since Ratzinger became Pope, Schönborn believes the Pontiff wants these issues publicized. Given a Europe the Austrian describes as "Christphobic," however, convincing even the faithful to doubt Darwin may be a policy that needs time to evolve...