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Finally, Coca-Cola's setbacks have extended even to outer space. Coke and Pepsi were aboard the latest flight of the space shuttle Challenger, but at a press briefing last week the astronauts said that neither soft drink was satisfying. Reason: the spacecraft has no refrigerator. Said Mission Commander Gordon Fullerton: "Warm cola is not on anybody's list of favorite things." --By Barbara Rudolph. Reported by Leslie Cauley/Atlanta, with other bureaus
...teenager and her 11-year-old cousin were stranded for more than an hour atop the new Insanity ride above the Las Vegas Strip when high winds caused the ride to shut down. At Disney World in Orlando, Fla., a 4-year-old boy died after passing out on Mission: Space, a turbulent motion-simulator ride. (An investigation is under way; no safety problems have been found.) And the new Kingda Ka roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., billed as the fastest yet, was shut down last week after a malfunction...
...from around China who had faced workplace discrimination, blackmail and even prison time started to seek his legal counsel. So Zhou, 31, decided to act on his conviction that "a good lawyer should know not only how to make money from the profession but also how to advance some mission related to social justice...
...turning point on the war may be approaching. One sign is the apprehensiveness of military men like General John Abizaid, U.S. Central Command chief. "We are being successful," he said last week. "I have never met a soldier in the field who has not expressed confidence about the mission. But I'm increasingly having a hard time in Washington finding people who have confidence in the mission." --With reporting by Sally B. Donnelly and J.F.O. McAllister
...Thank you for the insightful, compassionate story on the U.S. Military Academy and the profiles of three graduates [May 30]. They are very different yet are terrific in their individual ways. We Americans too often forget that the military academies have a mission to prepare leaders for the future, whether we are at war or not. We take for granted that there are young people who are willing to make extraordinary sacrifices in order to become those leaders. The 2005 graduates deserve praise and our gratitude. After 9/11, they could have decided the war on terrorism wasn't what they...