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...most of the ways it is used, with budgets that suck up funds that could be invested in a modern system that would make space flight cheaper and safer. The space shuttle is impressive in technical terms, but in financial terms and safety terms no project has done more harm to space exploration. With hundreds of launches to date, the American and Russian manned space programs have suffered just three fatal losses in flight--and two were space-shuttle calamities. This simply must be the end of the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped | 7/28/2005 | See Source »

...emailed her family about how beautiful Mount Fuji looked from space, and the Sahara Desert, and the stars, up close. The fears that weighed on her family sat lightly on her. "To me, there's a lot of different things that we do during life that could potentially harm us, and I choose not to stop doing those things," she said. "They've all come to accept that it's what I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seven Astronauts, One Fate | 7/28/2005 | See Source »

...year-old CIA operations support assistant in Ghana, pleaded guilty to two counts of violating the act after revealing the identities of two agents to her boyfriend, a cousin of Ghana's military ruler. After her arrest, Scranage cooperated with authorities, helped in the preparation of a harm-assessment report and told the court, "I'm very sorry for all the damage I've done." She was sentenced to five years in prison and ended up serving 18 months. Scranage's boyfriend, who had come to the U.S., was given a 20-year sentence for receiving secrets. It was suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: What Can You Say About A Spy? | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

Undoing dams that have outlived their usefulness--or whose social and economic utility is overshadowed by the environmental harm they do--is an idea that is catching on. Over the past six years, some 175 dams have been dismantled across the country, and more than 600 over the past century. That's just a drop in the millpond, however, given that there are perhaps 2.5 million dams in the U.S. and that most of those removed to date have been relatively small and insignificant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Worth a Dam? | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, Arroyo is hanging tough. "This must stop," she said Friday. "With due respect to former President Aquino and others, their actions cause deep and grievous harm to the nation because they undermine our democratic principles and the very foundation of our constitution." Another former President, Fidel Ramos, told the press that Arroyo should "stay the course" but also advised she start work on changing the constitution to a parliamentary system and calling a presidential election by June 2006?in effect, cutting short Arroyo's term by four years. "People ask, 'Can I govern?'" Arroyo admitted in her radio address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can She Hold On? | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

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