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Bread and salt were waiting for commander Eileen Collins and her crew when they docked the space shuttle Discovery with the International Space Station last Thursday. Station commander Sergei Krikalev had prepared the little ceremony, a Russian tradition intended to bring good luck to a visitor to your home. After the shuttle's stunning lift-off two days earlier--the first since the loss of the Columbia orbiter in 2003--it didn't seem the crew would need such happy charms. But now it appears the shuttle program as a whole--if not the astronauts themselves--may need...
...bombers. Andrew Gross Union City, California, U.S. "Inside The Mind of an Iraqi Suicide Bomber" was chilling. I congratulate Time for gaining contact with the interviewee. Your story shed valuable light on why some zealots make the inconceivable choice to carry out horrendous acts of terrorism. Heidi Deifel Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. Hard Right Turn Iran's presidential election, which was won by the hard-line Islamic zealot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [July 4-11], proved that Iranians are very much like Americans. When they feel threatened, they become more entrenched and belligerent. The victory of an ultraconservative militant in Iran...
...more than 1,600 applicants to choose from—had no hand in the site. In fact, Archibald didn’t know it existed until he drove by his own billboard, which is in Lindon, some 40 miles to the south of Salt Lake City...
After the excursion to Monaco, I spent the evening watching fireworks at Cannes from the deck of a trimaran boat. Putting aside the watercolor I had been apathetically painting, I sat back and took in the omnipresent smell of sea salt and smoke and the shimmering silhouettes of overly-friendly jellyfish. Yet I could not escape the thought that my brother was no longer an undergrad like me. He was now a husband, honeymooning in Bora Bora with my new sister-in-law. The image was too heavy to bear. And so I contented myself by musing upon whether...
...Burling wants to keep spreading the word. Though a shortage of boards and passable surf spots will limit surfing's growth on the Friendly Islands, "If a kid comes up and asks me to teach him to surf," says Burling, "I'm never going to say no." With salt in their hair and the sun on their backs, Tonga's band of wave riders is making up for 200 years of lost time...