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...former NASA flight surgeon on the Challenger mission, told TIME. "NASA was not interested and felt that the general flight surgeon would be able to identify problems on the annual physical exam." The agency relies on the doctors and other health professionals to do the annual physical to pick up on any possible psychological problems, NASA spokesman Lynnette Madison said. If they spot a problem, the astronaut would be referred to the Johnson Space Center Behavioral Health and Performance Center...
...after Baader and two other confederates were convicted of murder in a controversial trial - Mohnhaupt and Klar accompanied a young RAF recruit named Susanne Albrecht as she brought a bouquet of flowers to the villa of her godfather, Dresdner Bank chairman Jürgen Ponto. When Ponto turned to pick up a vase, Klar and Mohnhaupt both opened fire, killing him. Two months later, in an attempt to spring their jailed comrades, the pair were part of a RAF team that kidnapped leading industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer; fellow terrorists engineered the hijacking of a Lufthansa plane. When German special forces...
...NCAA championship game in 2001, Arenas watched every team bypass him in the first round of the NBA draft. He cried. "The teams in this league said no to Gilbert Arenas," says an amazed Dallas Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson--whose team didn't have a first-round pick...
...friend in Vancouver to drive to the Oyama Sausage Co., a high-end meat store at the amazing market on Granville Island. Sadly, she wasn't able to pick up any horse steaks, or better yet Italian horse salami or German horse sausage. Not only are they supposed to be great, but it would have allowed me to say horse salami and horse sausage throughout this article. But she did pick up half a pound of salted, cured meat. On the FedEx form, she called the shipment a "leather art project," which seemed about right. Still, Homeland Security must have...
...this idea in a very interesting way. The EVR exhibit, set in the Sert Gallery, appears something like your everyday movie rental store. The movies are stacked on shelves in uniform white cases with descriptions, and there are televisions and VCRs playing movies about the room. You can pick a movie and watch it there, or even check out two videos at a time for up to two days, free of charge. The Blockbuster-esque layout presented a problem for the VES staff in charge of the project: how to get knowledgeable, interested people to staff the exhibit? Instead...