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...have to ignore scrapes and sprains. "I had to keep going and not let my team down," says Private Scott Feather. The Marines say the beefed-up regimen is working, based on early anecdotal evidence of fewer disciplinary problems and a dip in attrition. This week the Navy will launch its own 12-hour version of the Crucible...
Frist, who had been serving as Columbia's vice chairman and was growing increasingly disenchanted with Scott's leadership, wasted no time in signaling his willingness to cooperate with federal investigators. Frist said he was "dead serious" about addressing Washington's concerns and would launch at least three internal probes this week to ascertain whether company managers had broken any laws...
Three cheers for Yankee ingenuity! I never thought landing on Mars [SPACE, July 14] could launch such brilliant feelings of national pride. Never mind the cost-efficient design, bouncing-ball landing and extraordinary photographs. The real story here is that Americans love a challenge. These young rocket scientists more than met our expectations with their beautiful and simple solutions--which were inexpensive to boot. NASA has reaffirmed my belief that its programs are worthy of my tax dollars. ANDREA L. MILLER Northport...
That's what the U.S. is starting to wonder as well. Joint operations aboard Mir were originally designed to give American astronauts space-station experience prior to the launch of a new international space station in 1998 and to keep the Russians engaged in a high-profile cooperative project. But a series of mishaps on the creaky, 11-year-old Mir over the past six months has raised questions about the station's safety, threatening to send space cooperation into what may turn out to be an uncontrolled spin of its own. Some U.S. legislators, reflecting widespread public exasperation, want...
That is evidently the case in Santa Fe. The launch of the museum and the assembly of the 87 works in its nascent permanent collection, worth about $15 million, have come about thanks largely to Texas cattle baroness Anne Marion and her husband John, the former chairman of Sotheby's North America. Approached in 1995 to contribute funds and some of her O'Keeffe paintings to the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, Anne Marion decided on a dramatic and wholly Texan response: establish a museum devoted to O'Keeffe herself...