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...boost everybody's confidence about the war. I was used as a symbol. They could show the war was going great because "we rescued this person." It doesn't bother me anymore. It used to. Through my book [I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, written by Rick Bragg], I have been able to set the record straight. I did what I could do and now let the record speak for itself...
...week promoting intelligent design made Morris and many other Darwin doubters uncomfortable because they have a different timetable in mind. "His support is appreciated, but I plan to move forward on attempting to get criticism of Darwinian evolution in the science standards, not intelligent design," says Morris. Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, a leading voice on the religious right, seemed to be reading from the same script. "What we should be teaching are the problems and holes in the theory of evolution," he said in an interview with National Public Radio a few days after Bush made his comments. Santorum also...
...RICK SANTORUM, Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, on why the White House is balking at releasing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' income tax returns...
However long the investigation takes, it will start with an examination of the last 45 min. of Columbia's life. Commander Rick Husband fired his deorbit engines at 8:15 a.m. E.T. when the ship was high over the Indian Ocean. Half an hour--and half a world--later, it hit the edges of the atmosphere just north of Hawaii at an altitude of about 400,000 ft. (122,000 m). Shortly after, a faint pink glow began to surround the ship, as atmospheric friction caused temperatures to rise to between 750[degrees]F and 3,000[degrees]F across...
...seem, there was no sign of any such crisis in the final seconds of Columbia's flight, and unlike a tile failure, which could well go undetected until the very moment it claimed a ship, a piloting emergency would at least leave the commander time to sound an alert. Rick Husband made no distress call...