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...half minutes later, another engine seemed to overheat. "If the right engine had failed ... we would have been in the water," Lacefield said afterward, meaning that Challenger, with its crew of seven, would have fallen in a controlled glide. By firing its remaining two engines for an additional 86 sec., Challenger finally reached a safe orbit 197 miles above the earth, 45 miles below that planned...
...preordained fashion, he simply goes out and does it. In the weeks before this summer's highly touted Dream Mile at Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Cram, 24, was clearly on a roll. On July 16 in Nice, France, he had smashed the world 1,500-meter mark by 1.10 sec. with a beautifully structured performance in 3:29.67. So, coming into Oslo with the track world now focused on his run at Olympic Champion Sebastian Coe's four-year-old mile record of 3:47.33, everything felt just right...
First, Norway's Ingrid Kristiansen rode the roar of the hometown aficionados to a 10,000-meter time of 30:59.42, a vast 14.36 sec. better than the old record. Next, Morocco's Said Aouita just out-dueled the U.S.'s Sydney Maree, shaving .01 sec. off the 5,000-meter record with his 13:00.40. Finally, Cram and Coe, 28, came onstage with eleven others for the classic confrontation to determine who would reign among the world's milers. Many experts, including Cram in his quiet, pleasant way, felt that the outcome was virtually certain. One possible question...
...pension fund. But when a balloon payment became due in 2002, Murphy dodged it by fashioning another underfunding plan, winning the pension board's acceptance with a promise to hike pension payouts and give special benefits to the union presidents. Now the FBI, the U.S. Attorney and the SEC are investigating the deal. --By Terry McCarthy. With reporting by Jill Underwood/San Diego
...Harvard, BAM has also questioned the University’s investment in ChevronTexaco. At the end of 2004, Harvard owned 305,689 shares of the oil conglomerate’s stock, according to SEC filings...