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...January 27, 1967, just 21 months before Schirra's mission took off, the Apollo command module had killed three of his colleagues, when a spark ignited its pure oxygen atmosphere, immolating Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a lockdown rehearsal on the pad. Everyone at NASA already knew that the so-far unflown Apollo was a lemon. Not long before the three men died, they sat for a photo session with a model of the command module resting on a table in front of them it. In one of the outtakes never released to the press, they dropped...
...need to increase the opportunities for Palestinians,” Gillerman said of business development. “They can turn Gaza into the Hong Kong of the Middle East if their leaders choose to do that instead of turning it into a launching pad for terrorism.” Affirming his belief that there is sufficient hope for Palestinians, Gillerman called upon the establishment of visionary Palestinian leaders and the recognition of these leaders by the rest of the world. “We have been made hostages to our dreams for long enough,” he said...
...from a Kids in the Hall “Bad Doctor” skit. My freshman year I woke up with a big enough tummy-ache to warrant my first visit to UHS. The nurse on duty was a Danny DeVito look-a-like, whose gruff voice and flip-pad made him look more like a cop than a caregiver. He grunted and cleared his throat to speak. I waited for my Miranda Rights...
...refining prototype keyboards. Theirs is more about thumb typing than table typing. They obsessed over the mini-mouse device that controls the cursor, called a "trackstick," trying to make it feel, in their words, "buttery." FlipStart took a more-is-better approach, incorporating both a trackstick and a touch pad...
Javad Zarif, Iran's polished U.N. ambassador, is noted for being unexpectedly jovial for a person with such a difficult job. But soon after I arrive for a visit to his Manhattan office a few days ago, he turns rather serious and nods at a pad of paper for me to take notes. He wants to go on the record, which is unusual...