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Sounds like a success story, and in some ways it is. But in the service of what? This is the 119th flight of a space shuttle, the 20th for Endeavour and the 22nd overall to the ISS, a still-growing orbiting outpost that is more or less the only reason any of the shuttles fly anymore. The Endeavour crew will be delivering a two-ton truss segment that will help hold solar arrays and will require three risky spacewalks to install. If the ISS were doing good science at an arguably reasonable price, those risks would be worth taking...
...difficulties he faces between American liberals and African conservatives over the issue of homosexual clergy seem almost insoluble. It is assumed by both sides of the controversy over homosexual priests that an agreement can be reached under which all parties are forced to follow one dogmatic position. Each outpost of Anglicanism, however, has become too much the creature of its own society and culture. If any doctrinal agreement can be made among all parts of the Anglican Communion, it must be based on fundamental tenets, not the issues of the day. Anglicanism is distinct from other Christian denominations...
Neuk Crescent in Houston, on the edge of Glasgow, hardly feels like an outpost of terrorist activity. Residents of the quiet street, cut into a wooded hillside in the upper-middle class suburb, can count the Scottish city's rich professional football players among their neighbors. Curving in on itself, the crescent's name speaks to its snug insulation: In the local dialect, "neuk" means "nook...
Inside the city of Samarra, the fighting has taken on a daily rhythm. In the afternoons, insurgents sling mortars, rockets and bullets into U.S. and Iraqi compounds, usually disappearing in the street before anyone has a chance to kill or wound them. At night, U.S. troops roll from their outpost on the eastern edge of Samarra and search those same streets for fighters moving about laying roadside bombs. They usually find some, and shooting erupts again...
...fighting that killed the insurgent later publicly hung began when guerillas attacked a newly established police outpost on the eastern side of the city. The police fought off the attackers but then abandoned the post later in the day, fearing another assault they could not stop. American trainers pressed the police to return to the station. They did, only to find it destroyed. Insurgents entered the building in the time the police were gone, rigged the structure with explosives and demolished it. Now the only police presence in Samarra away from the American base is a small outpost...