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...named Tessa Leavitt was born in a motel bathtub on the night of June 18, 2005. Her mother cleaned her, breast-fed her and cut the umbilical cord herself. The next day, the young Hispanic woman swaddled the infant in a white towel and took her to Fire Station 15 in Whittier, Calif., where she rang the doorbell and told the firefighters, "I want to give up my baby." When the paramedics arrived 30 minutes later, she put the child on their gurney and left. "It was eerie," recalls firefighter Kevin Cull. "The ambulance went off in one direction...
...Boston Fish Pier: take the Red Line to South Station, transfer to the Silver Line (Outbound) to World Trade Center Station. Walk one block towards the NE on Viaduct St. Turn right on Northern Ave. $15 admission charge includes half-dozen oysters, and the first 300 shellfish aficionados get free t-shirts. 21+. Slurp...
...There are also a host of technological hurdles stand between our current capabilities and a highway full of hydrogen vehicles. Distributing hydrogen to consumers will require an entirely new infrastructure to transport the gas as well as new filling stations. Safely holding hydrogen in cars will require heavily reinforced tanks to prevent the family station wagon from going the way of the Hindenburg. And although hydrogen has a high energy yield per pound, it has an incredibly low mass density, even at subzero temperatures, so fuel tanks need to be unreasonably large to give hydrogen vehicles usable driving ranges. Still...
...lightning strike on the launch pad and an approaching hurricane, the delay caused by the debris threatened to mar what has otherwise been a successful mission. After a four-year delay following the destruction of Space Shuttle Columbia, astronauts have finally resumed the construction of the International Space Station, installing 35,000 pounds of solar arrays and trusses. Fourteen more missions are needed to finish the job by 2010, when the shuttle will be retired...
...Tonga, a group of 169 Polynesian islands, for 41 years; of heart disease; in Auckland, New Zealand. A mostly benign ruler of the only remaining monarchy in the South Pacific, he opposed political reforms and restricted the press but also introduced Tonga's first dictionary, newspaper and television station. He is succeeded by his British-educated businessman son, Crown Prince Tupouto...