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...heartbreaking loss of Space Shuttle Columbia over the skies of Texas this Saturday was a graphic illustration of what happens when our dreams dissolve into frightening nightmares. But we must not let this unfortunate disaster make us afraid of dreaming ever again. Despite this setback, we cannot allow dread of future nightmares to override our imaginations, tighten our purse strings, pack up NASA and keep our feet on the ground. Over the years, NASA has proved itself a successful aeronautical program that has aided scientists and theorists in learning vast amounts about what was once a dark mystery...
Junior pitcher and first baseman Marc Hordon will miss the season with a torn labrum, the latest and most dramatic setback in what has been a brilliant but injury-plagued career. Hordon turned in a gritty performance in the first game of the 2002 NCAA Regional against Rice weeks after spraining the same shoulder and missed two weeks earlier in the season with a broken left hand. He also injured his other labrum as a freshman...
Prasse-Freeman was banished to the bench for the most thrilling moments of what will probably be the Crimson’s most exhilarating loss of the season, an 84-77 setback to Boston College at Conte Forum...
...ugly second half spelled Harvard’s doom in an opening-round loss to host Richmond, but the killer for the Crimson was a disappointing setback to a depleted VMI squad in the consolation game...
...followed by a multifront invasion of Iraq. Instead of building up their forces along the Iraqi borders and invading on the ground, many U.S. troops are likely to fly directly into Iraqi airfields that are expected to be seized by U.S. troops in the conflict's opening hours. One setback to U.S. plans is that Turkey seems unlikely to allow its bases to be used as stepping stones to open a northern front against Iraq. Nearly nine in 10 Turks opposed a U.S.-led war against Iraq in a recent survey. SOLOMON ISLANDS Paradise Lost The remote islands of Tikopia...