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...Sunday, April 9, comes zero hour. The brave volunteers will be sealed in the war room--no civilians allowed, only a telecom link to their commanders--to carry out a perilous mission and stare into the void. They've rehearsed the horrifying scenario over and over. But this will be no drill. If all goes wrong...the survivors will envy the dead...
...recent front-page story out of Maryland presented a nightmarish scenario for teachers and other adults who work with children as volunteer coaches, tutors or scout leaders. The story concerns a gym teacher who was accused of sexual misconduct--hugging, fondling and sexual remarks--by seven middle-school students. The teacher's reputation, unblemished through 32 years in the classroom, was in ruins--until the kids eventually recanted their stories...
...past decade--ever since NASA's 1989 proposal laid its half-trillion-dollar egg--the space community has been intrigued by a mission scenario known as the Mars Direct plan. Developed by engineers at Martin Marietta Astronautics, a NASA contractor, Mars Direct calls not merely for visiting the Red Planet but also for living off the alien land...
...that if science does end, we will still have sex and beer. Maybe that's the right attitude, but there aren't any Nobels in it. No matter how far science does or doesn't advance, however, there's one wild card in even the most pessimistic scenario. If we encounter extraterrestrial life--and especially life intelligent enough to have developed its own science--then all bets...
...promotion reached Kennedy, she filed a formal complaint alleging that Smith groped her in her office back in 1996. The complaint followed an earlier informal charge that she hoped would put Smith's career under special scrutiny. To add insult to injury, the Army has seen this kind of scenario before: In 1997, Major General David Hale was appointed briefly to the post of deputy inspector general before multiple allegations of sexual misconduct ended his career...