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...minimum, the PAL ridge will have to be redesigned. Currently, foam in that area is applied by hand instead of machine, which had seemed like the better method but clearly may not be. Engineers might also replace the ridge with a metal guard. "There is a very good chance the impact on the next flight could be minimal," says Phil Engelauf of the mission operations team. Still, the September flight of Atlantis will almost surely be delayed. How badly the schedule will back up after that is unknown...
Once Lucas got Sony's nod (it didn't hurt that Jamie Foxx also signed on--at five times Lucas' salary), Cohen put him through hero school, teaching him the kinds of lessons that Method actors don't want to hear: unlike normal people, heroes don't flinch, and they don't reveal any backstory. "It was about constructing and deconstructing the male archetype," says Cohen. "He has enough male beauty without being pretty, he has the height, he has the physicality, but in the heart of Josh, he has the niceness and the intelligence. Plus...
...many of the inquests that opened last week, they were cited as the basis for identification. The same was true after last year's tsunami. Pornthip Rojanasunan, a Thai forensic scientist who named 2,400 of the roughly 6,000 who died in Thailand, says, "The most useful method in identifying [tsunami] victims was their dental records." Coroners also rely on possessions - clothing, footwear, jewelry, watches, eyeglasses, together with scars, moles, birthmarks, tattoos and identity papers the person may have been carrying. But for all the potential evidence available, Israeli experts expect that identifying the London victims will be very...
...bombing by a private London security firm, Aegis Defense Services Ltd., which was seen and read by Pentagon officials, the team was probably four to six strong, although it is technically feasible that one or two bombers conducted the attacks. A British official says that based on the method of the attacks, "they would have needed quite a number of people, possibly as many as 10." The Aegis report says it is possible that the explosives were "constructed by an experienced bombmaker, possibly coming to the U.K. for that very purpose...
...MAIL THANK-YOUS FOR BUSINESS GIFTS "It's adequate, but it's not the preferred method. It's better than nothing. If you have a choice, which most of us do, get out the handwritten note. It will make a huge difference...