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...Chicago, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, also the special counsel in the CIA-leak investigation, is presiding over an ongoing contracting and patronage probe that has already led to 30 indictments, including those of two lieutenants of Mayor Richard Daley. A federal official tells TIME that the bureau is looking closely at possible Daley links to the scandal, although an FBI spokesman stresses that Daley himself is not implicated to date. At the same time, former Illinois Governor George Ryan stands trial on various corruption charges (which he denies) that arose initially out of a probe into whether low-number license...
...donations and junkets that Abramoff and Scanlon say they provided to Ney in return for "official acts," the e-mails present in one place the specific elements of a swap that Abramoff has told investigators was prearranged and explicitly reciprocal, according to a source close to the Justice Department probe. To wit: a $10,000 donation to the Republicans just days before Ney inserted into the Congressional Record a statement praising an Abramoff business partner. Ney's lawyer, Mark Tuohey, calls the accusations "totally false...
...that many people accept those accounts as truth. I wish the promise of the Enlightenment would be fulfilled - that supernaturalism would be replaced by scientific investigation and reason. John Moorman Tifton, Georgia, U.S. Battle of the Binge I love the English. It's sad that your article did not probe more deeply into why the English binge drink more than the French and the Italians [Dec. 19]. It may be a combination of circumstances both natural and man-made: the dismally damp weather of Britain, the lackluster cuisine and the Brits' Victorian heritage. Angelo Forlenza San Jose, California...
...EARTH LAUNCH - Between Jan. 17 and Feb. 14 ? SATURN ? JUPITER Jupiter gravity assist - February to March 2007 ? URANUS ? NEPTUNE ? PLUTO PLUTO-CHARON ENCOUNTER July 2015. During flyby, the probe will pass within a mere 6,000 miles (10,000 km) of Pluto?40 times as close as the Earth is to our own moon ? KUIPER BELT Voyage into Kuiper Belt 2016-2020 What is the Kuiper Belt? Named for Gerard Kuiper, who predicted its existence in the 1950s, it is a vast, disk-shaped cloud of thousands of icy bodies that starts near Neptune...
...Antenna ? Heat shield ? Thruster ? Star tracking cameras ? PEPSSI - Detects molecules escaping from Pluto's atmosphere ? SWAP - Looks for magnetic fields and measures how fast the atmosphere is escaping ? RTG - Powers the craft with a tiny amount of plutonium. Because the probe will travel so far from the sun, solar power was not an option ? LORRI - A high-resolution telescope and camera capable of detecting features about the size of a football field ? REX - Uses radio waves to analyze the atmosphere and determine night-side temperature ? ALICE - Analyzes ultraviolet light to determine...