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Iman Badawi trudged up two flights of stairs inside the ramshackle Helwan School for Girls, looking for the classroom that had been turned into a polling station. The 42-year-old former teacher said she was certain that President Hosni Mubarak?s ruling party would rig the vote as it had done in past elections. Nonetheless, she took her 10-year-old daughter by the hand, entered the room and cast her ballot for opposition candidate Ayman Nour. ?I brought my daughter to show her the importance of participating,? Badawi said outside the school in Helwan, an industrial city...
...TIME staff did, however, also see confusion and intimidation. Despite an eleventh-hour agreement to allow independent Egyptian bodies such as the ICEM to monitor voting, TIME encountered Egyptian monitors who claimed to have been blocked from entering some polling stations. ICEM monitor Suleiman Azahiry, 26, said he feared arrest and was ordered to remain 100 yards from a voting station near the village of Tukh, 15 miles north of Cairo. ?They wrote our names down and threatened us,? Azahiri, who acknowledged his opposition to Mubarak?s re-election, told TIME after the incident...
...disaster struck. Established property lines and existing infrastructure are confines that are hard to escape. Look at the World Trade Center site, where the determination to bring back all 10 million sq. ft. of lost office space and the presence of below-ground features like an electrical-utility switching station have had more influence on the shape of reconstruction than any number of visionary architects. Add to that the human tendency to take comfort in the thought that an area that has suffered near destruction can be resurrected in much the same form. "Modest improvements, not truly visionary rethinking...
...will give NASA the credit it is due instead of bashing the agency about a few chunks of foam. The camera that allowed technicians to see the insulation foam provided information about damage that was assessed and fixed. I believe NASA got it right. After all, the International Space Station has been restocked, the new safety systems (cameras, sensors, etc.) worked perfectly, and all seven American astronauts are back on solid ground having never doubted their agency's ability to get them home safely. Emily J. Chambers Columbus, Georgia...
...will give nasa the credit it is due instead of bashing the agency about a few chunks of foam. The camera that allowed technicians to see the insulation foam provided information about damage that was assessed and fixed. I believe nasa got it right. After all, the International Space Station has been restocked, the new safety systems (cameras, sensors, etc.) worked perfectly, and all seven American astronauts are back on solid ground, having been confident that the agency had the ability to get them home safely. Emily J. Chambers Columbus, Georgia, U.S. You wrote about the safety concerns plaguing nasa...