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...Again A Russian launch rocket fumbles its $100M cargo. Is the cash-poor Russian Space Agency just plain unreliable...
...Trial for Nichols? Terry Nichols is guilty of conspiracy and manslaughter, but not murder. The defense is confused, the prosecution frustrated, and relatives of Oklahoma bombing victims are just plain angry. But there could be a solution. Full Story...
Keep in mind that some photographs are punctum free but still haunting. One landscape we'll remember is nothing more than a plain littered with rocks. It's fascinating because it happens to be on Mars. Maybe it's just a trick of the light, but the pictures that NASA's Mars Sojourner sent home were some of the most emotionally complicated of the year. The scenery may not be much, but as we know from photographs of the Old West, which Pathfinder's greatly resemble, no-man's-land has always been America's fallback version of paradise...
CLEVELAND: Could the Army have prevented Gulf War syndrome? As argument rages over whether the illness even exists, a transcript turned up Sunday by the Cleveland Plain Dealer shows an Army review board expressing doubt over an experimental drug administered to 8,000 soldiers ? a vaccine, some fear, that caused the widespread post-war health problems in veterans...
...come to light, secrecy and obfuscation still pervades in the armed forces. "It would seem morally wrong to gather prospective or retrospective data on the efficacy of unproven drugs in military volunteers facing exposure to biological or chemical weapons," the ethics committee chairman, Col. Arthur Anderson, told the Plain Dealer. Translation: If veterans really contracted Gulf War syndrome via an Army needle, this was one serious screw...