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Wilson, who will be the second African-American woman in space, will serve as mission specialist to the seven-person Discovery crew. The upcoming mission will be NASA’s second shuttle flight since losing the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven...
...flight interview with NASA, Wilson, a Boston-bred native, said that she has harbored aeronautic ambitions since the age of 13. A high school assignment later brought her in contact with local astronomer and former Harvard lecturer Jay M. Pasachoff ’63, and her interest in space skyrocketed from there...
...most striking painting in New Delhi's National Gallery of Modern Art, India's premier collection, is up a flight of stairs, in a room on the first floor. Usually hanging in a distant corner, it gives you a jolt when it springs on you. It's a rectangular oil panel: a group of adolescent Brahmins, bare-chested and with gleaming, sacred threads dangling around their torsos, sit cross-legged against a burgundy background. One of them stares at you, one turns away, and the central figure, with a white-and-red paint mark on his forehead, looks beyond...
...Merk's decision. McBride spent much of the contest futilely chasing long balls kicked over his head from the back line. This will likely be the big centerman's last World Cup, but if the U.S. wants to qualify for the next one, they'd better produce a top flight striker, and soon, as McBride was operating alone for much of the tournament. Still, the Americans had enough quality to go through. "Things like that happen," Arena said of the penalty. "They just happen a lot to our team...
...comrades-in-arms. Three Cessna aircraft, outfitted with sophisticated surveillance equipment and given to Pakistan last year by the U.S. to help catch heroin smugglers, have also been drafted into service against the Baluch rebels. Quetta military base sources say that when U.S. antinarcotics agents examined the Cessnas' flight records last month, they found that only seven hours were spent chasing drug runners, while most of the flying time was logged over Bugti's craggy domain scanning for rebel camps...