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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...
FANDANGO Formed in 2000 by a consortium of movie exhibi-tors, it has an efficient voice-recognition system. But the prompts can be confusing: the service doesn't even say you've reached Fandango until three steps in. Call time: 4 min. 30 sec. Web time...
...contrasts are there. Schools in the Texas-Miami orbit have athletes who never see class after frantic pushes to break 800 on the SAT, belong to utterly corrupt conferences (SEC football, anyone?) and basketball teams that don’t graduate half their players. The Ivy League does...
Remember Harvey Pitt, the deposed Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman? The onetime lawyer for big accounting firms resigned last November following criticism that his relationship with former clients was keeping him from cracking down on corporate scandal. President Bush appointed a successor, former brokerage and insurance executive William Donaldson. But with Donaldson's nomination not yet approved by the Senate, Pitt is still at the helm--and wielding more power than ever...
...past two weeks, the SEC has issued a spate of new rules intended to prevent future Enron-style scandals. But under intense lobbying pressure from Wall Street as well as the accounting and legal professions, the commission has watered down or delayed some of these rules. For example, the SEC voted to allow accounting firms to continue to earn fat consulting fees from the companies they audit. And lawyers will be required to report any wrongdoing they witness to senior company executives but not to the SEC--as the SEC had initially proposed...