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...Atlantis is to thunder off the launch pad early in the evening of Wednesday, February 7, carrying the newest segment of the International Space Station, a U.S. laboratory module named Destiny. NASA managers, rarely stolid when it comes to shuttle launches, have taken to describing Destiny as a "quantum leap" in the orbiting outpost's mission and capacity. From Cape Canaveral, Brad Liston examines this latest development in the $100 billion science saga...
...side, sophomore Niall Murphy won the 60-meter high hurdles in 8.37 seconds, and senior Arthur Fergusson won the triple jump with a 14.92 meter leap--both season-bests. Co-captain John Kraay was Harvard's remaining event winner, cracking 53 feet (16.17 meters) for the second straight week in the shot...
...previous matches, but Capriati actually used her underdog status--she was seeded 12th--and newly discovered maturity to her advantage. "I thought, 'Why be nervous? She has everything to lose. Just go for it.'" In addition to winning a legion of fans, she'll take home $473,385 and leap to seventh place in this week's rankings, the first time she's been in the top 10 since she quit the tour...
Andrew-Jaja and senior Arthur Fergusson led the Crimson in the field. Andrew-Jaja won the triple jump with a personal best 14.53-meter leap and cleared the 2.01-meter bar to earn second in the high jump. Fergusson placed just behind his teammate in the triple jump and placed second in the long jump. Junior Aaron Snead finished tied for third in the pole vault...
Pennsylvania, which took the leap around the same time as California, is often cited as the model of well-designed deregulation; 550,000 customers, or some 10% of the state's total, have switched to one of the many new suppliers. Competition works: Pennsylvanians have saved $3 billion on their electric bills...