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...tracks down but can't bring himself to kill because decades ago they were in the same orphanage. Detective Carter (Tucker), demoted to traffic cop, hooks up with Lee and wheedles his way into a trip to Paris, where an international dignitary (Max von Sydow) has given them the mission to hunt down the triad gang and its secret boss. Anyone who's seen von Sydow in Three Days of the Condor, Majority Report or several other thrillers he's made on vacation from his great Ingmar Bergman films doesn't need me to finger Monsieur Big. It would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackie Chan Back in Action in Rush Hour 3 | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

Think Americans stuck in airports have to wait a long time for a flight? Try 22 years. That's how long astronaut Barbara Morgan, 55 - who blasted off Wednesday aboard the shuttle Endeavour for a planned 11-day mission - had to cool her heels before she got her first chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is This Teacher in Space? | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...Teacher in Space program was a creature of NASA's arguably naive, 1980s belief that, with a fleet of sturdy shuttles, space flight could become a wonderfully routine thing. Former Utah Senator Jake Garn snagged himself a seat on one flight - never mind that he spent much of the mission so violently space sick that NASA wags informally added a whole new category, labeled "Garn," to the sliding scale used for diagnosing nausea in orbit. Then Congressman (now Senator) Bill Nelson of Florida spent six days in space aboard the shuttle Columbia in January of 1986, the same month Challenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is This Teacher in Space? | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

Sewall said she thought it was absurd for people to think that collaborating with the military went against the Carr Center’s mission...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Director Faces Flak For Helping Military | 8/3/2007 | See Source »

While awaiting the debate on the bill, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) Executive Director Brock C. Reeve said that all three aspects of Patrick’s proposal could potentially aid the mission of the institute and of the “greater Harvard network...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Patrick Pushes Forward Stem Cell Proposal | 8/3/2007 | See Source »

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