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...sign of the times that amid this explosion of great science, the space story that has got by far the most TV coverage has been Shannon Lucid: plucky, hard-luck astronaut sentenced to six months of sponge baths and Russian food. I salute her spunk, but surely the publicity surrounding her represents a nadir of the shuttle program. Space-endurance records are the equivalent of watching grass grow. The endless hurling of men and women into near space has indeed made us the world's authority on zero-G nausea and other fascinations. But can we move on, please...
...Shannon Lucid looked forward to a lot of things while preparing for her fifth mission in space, but she never expected tomatoes. So in the third month of her stay aboard the Russian space station Mir other provisions, Lucid was delighted to find a generous supply of the plump red fruit. "For the next week, we had tomatoes three times a day," she wrote in the weekly summary of events she beamed back to Earth. "It was a sad meal when we finished the last...
...Reported by Scott MacLeod/Tehran, Elaine Shannon and Lewis M. Simons/Washington and James Wilde/Erbil...
Source: U.S. News and World Report vard. "We live about 10 miles away from Yale," said Sharon Tracey, mother of Shannon Tracey '00. "My daughter always wanted to go to Yale, until she saw Cambridge. I would rather have my daughter in Cambridge than New Haven...
...eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, and toast followed by a motivational speech from senior Bryant Butler, the head of the Corps of Cadets. "A lone wolf does not make it here.," he told the assembled cadets. "No matter how tough it gets, you rely on each other." Last year, cadet Shannon Faulkner began "hell week" after a federal court order forced open the Citadel's gates for her, but dropped out by weeks end, citing exhaustion and isolation. When she left, humiliated, she was escorted out with the taunts of her male classmates. A year later, though, the new cadets have entered...