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WILL THE MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE EFFORT TO BUILD A MANNED INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION END TOO? In cost and justification, it's as dubious as the shuttle. The two programs are each other's mirror images. The space station was conceived mainly to give the shuttle a destination, and the shuttle has been kept flying mainly to keep the space station serviced. Three crew members--Expedition Six, in NASA argot--remain aloft on the space station. Probably a Russian rocket will need to go up to bring them home. The wisdom of replacing them seems dubious at best. This second shuttle...
...takeoff was uneventful. My station was in the navigator's compartment, and I had a hole about 8 inches in diameter to look out. I was the weaponeer-basically, I was in charge of the bomb. We flew to the rendezvous point, where we'd meet two other airplanes one with instruments to measure the blast and another holding observers. The observer plane didn't show up. We circled, and after about 35 minutes, I said to Sweeney, "Damn it, proceed to the first target...
...would, but not this night, as the Sox were opposing the (now second-place) O?s down in Baltimore, while I was driving east from South Hadley through monsoon-like showers, flipping from this local station to the next on the many-hamleted Red Sox Radio Network. Finally on 495 north from Worcester I was able to lock onto the flagship station, WEEI, and I rode that home to Chelmsford. ?Home.? Well, my former home. Still Mom?s. Where I would bunk this night before tomorrow?s midday meet-and-greet at the bookstore in downtown Lowell...
...stranger to the daily commute. This only increased my dread of what I knew would become a stressful daily routine in order to get to midtown Manhattan from my home in Brooklyn. I would have to pay $2 for the pleasure of waiting in a hot, sticky and smelly station. When a train finally came, the only car with seats would be the one where the air conditioning was broken. If I chose air conditioning over a seat, I knew I could expect a ride crammed in with fellow commuters. Then it would be a test to see just...
...Around the corner from the Warren Street station at University College Hospital, three heavily armed police officers wearing flak jackets and two police officers with bomb sniffing dogs stormed into the emergency room soon after the blasts went off. Police sealed off the 16-story building, amidst rumors that someone had left the site of the explosions and had run into the ER. "I've never seen so many police in my life, running around rapidly with their guns," said one woman. "It was very hectic and we weren't told anything." For the police, the search for answers...