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...wing area. Applied like shaving cream, the foam dries to the hardness of a brick, which could conceivably damage the fragile external tiles that protect the shuttle during its fiery re-entry. When it was later disclosed that the spacecraft had spent 39 days idling on the pad before launch--enduring episodes of freezing rain that could have loosened the foam further--the case seemed closed...
...waiting to happen. It may have helped that Weekly Shonen Jump's Japanese circulation has declined by half, to about 3.4 million, since the mid-1990s, and the company was looking for new markets. Last December, Shueisha bought a 50% stake in Viz Communications, helping to finance the ambitious launch...
Nyarota’s paper has had numerous conflicts with President Robert Mugabe’s government since its launch...
...launch was originally slated for last Wednesday, but a “technical glitch” in uploading the new version to AOL’s servers in Dulles, Va. caused the delay, Turner said...
DIED. NATALYA DUDINSKAYA, 90, Russian prima ballerina at Leningrad's Kirov Ballet in the 1940s and '50s; in St. Petersburg. Dudinskaya helped launch Rudolf Nureyev's career when she, at age 46, partnered with...