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...relief early last week when NASA investigators determined that, yes, it was clearly a loose chunk of insulating foam that had damaged the shuttle Columbia's skin and led to its crack-up in the skies over Texas. Of course, they acknowledged, it was also possible that the ship actually started breaking up over California, and it might not have been foam that killed it, but a meteor. Or turbulence. Or an explosion in the wheel well. In fact, it began to seem that the only thing NASA could say with certainty was that nothing seemed to be certain...
...pets room-service menu with treats ranging from rawhide to steak tartare. The Inn at Perry Cabin in St. Michaels, Md., specializes in gourmet dog biscuits. And if your dog takes a liking to the designer doggie bed at the posh Hotel Lancaster in Paris, the management will ship a replica back home...
...While on the ship to Australia he taught himself Russian,” Kondoleon, a former student, said. “I was particularly inspired by his complete commitment to Byzantine studies despite the challenges he faced...
...build our houses the way we build our cars? Why do we ship every little and large thing needed for a building to one spot and then employ expensive skilled laborers and machinery to put it all together there--aside from the raw visual spectacle? it's a process that makes no economic or design sense. It would be smarter, surely, to have parts of the house made where craftsmen, raw materials or factories are and then shipped and assembled on site...
...continue on in spite of tragedy, America pauses in the journey to mourn the heroes we have lost. And we do not lament alone, for this was an international tragedy. The hauntingly horrid vision of the Columbia’s archangelic descent was seen around the world. Aboard the ship was Israel’s first astronaut, who had become a national hero in his home country before he ever stepped foot on the Space Shuttle. The pain is also felt deeply here at Harvard, for a certain kinship is shared amongst those—be they students at desks...