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...Expediency is another factor; with the shuttle fleet vulnerable, NASA cannot afford to spend 10 years developing a space plane, as it had planned to before February. The agency would like to test a new vehicle...
...There are some jobs only the shuttle can do. Its ability to carry large payloads into space will keep the remaining fleet in operation at least until the space station is completed. And its ability to bring large payloads back to Earth is unique. But the space shuttle, while magnificently brawny and brilliantly engineered, emerged from a series of compromises and budget cuts dating back to the Nixon Administration. The most critical mistake: designing a spaceship to fly horizontally like an airplane but launching it vertically like a rocket. That one decision saved $5 billion in the 1970s...
...eighth century Indonesian schooner depicted at Borobudur is now under sail in the Indian Ocean, on its way to Africa, manned by a multinational crew. The 19-meter-long ship is retracing the route of its ancient prototypes, which are believed to have formed the earliest transoceanic sailing fleet in history...
...anonymous screen grab of his 15-year-old daughter in the nude. Across the pond, the Sextown Sniper is terrorizing a California municipality set up under legal loopholes as a haven for the porn industry. Simultaneously, sleazy Clint Smoker, who writes a misogynistic column called Yellow Dog for a Fleet Street tabloid of dazzling tastelessness, is hurtling across several plotlines toward a romantic rendezvous with violent potential. What holds all this together? Alas, not much more than glue and stitching. Yellow Dog, sad to say, is a novelist's breakfast. Chapters on California's porn industry read as if Amis...
...threat. June's homeland-security appropriations bill included $60 million to study whether the antimissile technology currently used on military planes can be adapted for commercial use. Meanwhile, the Senate Commerce Committee is debating the commercial airline missile-defense act, which proposes equipping all commercial aircraft in the U.S. fleet (nearly 7,000 planes in all) with antimissile technology at a cost experts place, rather unexpertly, between $10 billion and $100 billion...