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...weeks and months to come, other, less likely scenarios will be examined too: a meteor or other piece of space debris could have struck the spacecraft, a growing risk given the decades of accumulated orbital junk that clutters the near-Earth environment. In this case, that's not likely, since the shuttle was already well into the atmosphere when it disintegrated. Age or metal fatigue could have been responsible as well. All four orbiters were temporarily grounded last June when cracks were found in their liquid-hydrogen fuel lines, damage that may have been caused by vibration, temperature changes...
...story. He was overweight as a child--by age 15, he weighed 210 lbs.--a problem he attributes partly to genetics and partly to a diet rich in barbecue, fried chicken, ice cream and pie. At the White House, he was an avid jogger with a taste for junk food. His weight fluctuated from 214 to 236. By the time he had his first heart operation last fall, he had taken off much of that extra weight, thanks to a modified South Beach diet and a lot of walking...
Even worse are the blatant special-interest politics that infests every piece of policy on the table. A proposal to ban junk-food sales in public schools is quickly advancing through the chambers in Sacramento, while one that would end soda sales (thought to be a direct cause of obesity that is easier to delineate than the nebulous label of “junk food”) is stalling due to aggressive lobbying from Pepsi and Coke. Such policies should at least be applied consistently...
...back to break-even for 2005. - By Jeff Israely and Adam Smith Keep On Rolling Were the obituaries for the auto business premature? Just a few months ago, major Western carmakers were on the skids. Standard & Poor's slashed the credit ratings for mighty Ford and General Motors to "junk" status in May; a month later, GM announced plans to cut 25,000 jobs. Sliding sales and depleted cash bumped Britain's MG Rover into administration in April. But it's summertime, and there are signs of life: GM's Employee Discount for Everyone promotion bumped its U.S. sales...
...Sharmanka gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, Bersudsky now exhibits 3-D expressions of his inner torments and the life he led as an artistic outcast after his return to Leningrad in 1961. He began carving wood and tinkering with junk and in 1967 produced his first kinetic sculpture of a barrel-organ grinder. "When he saw how it moved, he could never stop making them again," says Tatyana Jakovskaya, Bersudsky's wife, who met the artist in 1988 when he was still living in Leningrad, in a single room crammed with his sad, mad and satirical moving sculptures. Among them...