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...astronauts' families--will be anxiously watching for any change in that assessment. If the shuttle were deemed unsafe to fly, the crew could take refuge in the space station, waiting out the five weeks it would take to roll out and gas up sister ship Atlantis for a rescue mission. But Wayne Hale, deputy shuttle manager, dismisses that scenario as "remote...
...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...
...missionary still has a mission: to liberate movies from the ordinary. "My problem," he says, "is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix. I want to be taken into some place, some world, some idea that I haven't thought of or imagined. And it doesn't happen." Transporting viewers to that place means a lot of heavy lifting. It's a big job, but maybe Terry Gilliam...
...Shepherd Saved the Seal," about the rescue�of a wounded U.S. Navy SEAL on a commando mission in Afghanistan [July 18]: It's good to know that an Afghan shepherd in the rugged mountains was free to take the moral high road and provide safety to a U.S. serviceman in his country...
...promises to offer consumers of television more control in its creation--"to give young people a voice," Gore declared at the network's prelaunch in April--some young content creators are already questioning its openness. A lively blog on which aspiring video makers swapped ideas about the network's mission, recruitment process, video postings and politics cropped up on Current's website in its early days. But after would-be correspondents started criticizing management's policies and unresponsiveness, the blog was shut down...