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...California's Edwards Air Force Base, slim, hawk-nosed Test Pilot Scott Crossfield, 37, leisurely finished a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, struggled into a silver-tinted pressure suit that had been tailored to a skintight fit by a girdle manufacturer. Minutes later, Crossfield strapped himself into the cramped cockpit of a needle-nosed, stub-winged plane that was locked into place beneath the right wing of an Air Force B-52 bomber. At 8 o'clock sharp the B-52 roared down the runway and lifted. It carried with it Scott Crossfield in the X-15 rocket-plane ? designed...
Coming from behind to win a race can be tough. But sometimes, holding onto a slim lead can be even more difficult. After last weekend’s race, Radcliffe understands this fact all too well. In Hanover on Saturday, the Black and White’s first varsity eight failed to hold its lead and, in return, failed to gain a victory over Ivy-rival Dartmouth at the O’Leary Cup. Holding a slight edge the entire race, Radcliffe’s heavyweight varsity eight looked poised to avenge last weekend’s loss to Princeton...
...Berlusconi will doubtless try to put a similar grip on Prodi's new government. After all, the center-left's slim margin of victory adds to already existing doubts about Prodi's prospects of keeping his disparate allies from imploding. On foreign policy, for example, he must manage a core of coalition partners who are die-hard Communists and want Italy to break openly with U.S. policy. Prodi, who served as Italian Prime Minister in the late 1990s and later became President of the European Commission, has said he wants a more Europe-focused approach than was laid out under...
...Jerusalem, it is the Jewish custom to fold written prayers inside the cracks of the Western Wall. Last night, after exit polls in the Israeli elections gave his centrist Kadima Party a slim lead over its rivals, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wedged his prayer between the stones. Translated from Hebrew, it said: "He who prays for my brother and friend I will speak peace...
...approve of mixed-gender housing. We would like to remind the College administration, however, that this is our housing and not theirs. Just as their opinions on vegetarianism ought not to dictate our dining hall offerings, nor should their opinions on housing dictate our suitemates. As for the slim minority of students who oppose mixed-gender housing, there is the obvious solution of their continuing to room in single-gender suites.Allowing mixed-gender suites is an easy and painless way to improve student life on campus. We hope that the CHL and the House Masters will do everything in their...