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...trend in which couture is taking its cues from the sports world. Designed to play - not just saunter - in, the apparel appeals to style lovers who don't want to compromise their look on the sports field. Streetwise designer Alexander McQueen teamed up with Puma earlier this year to launch a modish range of running shoes. French couturier Celine was "enticed by the world of golf" and designed its summer 2006 collection accordingly (think natty culottes, visors and white leather gloves). And this winter McCartney, already onto her fourth workout range with Adidas, will follow Ralph Lauren, Celine and Chanel...
Columbia disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere due to the failure of its heat shield. The shield was damaged during the initial launch by a loose fragment of foam. The space shuttle Discovery’s last mission, which was launched one year ago, also shed foam debris during its launch but landed without major complications...
NASA has yet to find a sure-fire solution to the foam-loss issue, but top officials gave their final approval earlier this month for tomorrow’s 3:49 p.m. launch...
Magnus said that every space mission harbors notable hazards—including a 1-in-100 chance of a fatal disaster, according to official NASA estimates—but that the spacecraft set to launch tomorrow incorporates numerous fine-tuned enhancements that address problems plaguing past missions...
...used American power carefully but effectively to dramatically increase the role of America in World Affairs. Finally, combining his sense of American patriotism and morality with his awareness of the power of technology and a growing national economy TR understood that government had to be dramatically modernized. He helped launch the Progressive Era, and reforms like the Pure Food and Drug Act dramatically improved America's ability to provide a better life within a regulated market which had to meet minimum standards of public health and safety...