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Slowly, investigators are piecing together the answers. Space-agency technicians have been scrutinizing the final, fragmentary transmissions that came from the disintegrating Columbia, particularly a telltale, 2-sec. scrap of data deciphered for the first time only last week. Analysts are also paying closer attention to the 13-min. videotape, recovered partly intact from the wreckage, that the crew made during re-entry. Perhaps most important, some former astronauts have been willing to speculate--cautiously--on what might have been taking place inside Columbia in the critical minutes after the video went black and before the ship was destroyed...
...fact, the director may have been a little too true to his goals. While preparing for the film’s climactic one-on-one knife fight in one of The Hunted particularly confusing scenes, Hallam and L.T. independently carve makeshift weapons out of scrap metal and stone, despite the fact that they’re within walking distance of downtown Portland. Even modern primitives should know better than to do-it-yourself when there’s a Wal-Mart nearby...
Goodwin, the John Harvard’s waiter who was on the townie side of the fight, generally echoes that account of the scrap. “I’ve been involved in my share of fights at the Kong, but none since that one,” he says. “It sucks for me because I know a lot of Harvard students from my job and I grew up with a lot of the locals who are at the Kong, went to school with them and played football with them, so it’s tough...
There have possibly been other missteps as well. In February 2002 a CIA Predator fired at a group of Afghan men gathered around a truck, killing at least three of them. U.S. intelligence insists the men were an al-Qaeda band, but locals say they were nothing more than scrap dealers or smugglers. And as the agency tries to pull together rival Iraqi Kurdish forces into a viable guerrilla force that could take on Saddam, it must confront its sorry history in that territory. In 1995 it attempted to organize a Kurdish rebellion against Saddam...
...weaponry is not always as smart as the p.r. flacks would have us believe. Last February, for example, three Afghans, described as dangerous al-Qaeda terrorists, were killed by a missile launched from a CIA Predator drone in the eastern part of the country. They were apparently villagers collecting scrap metal. One was tall and could have been Osama bin Laden. Never mind that the man killed was only 5 ft. 11 and bin Laden is 6 ft. 5; the Predator can't see every detail, and there...