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...support, all educational activities involving the telescope at Oak Ridge—which included visits by students from a variety of universities and high schools—would cease. Alcock said that while some small projects—including a search for extraterrestrial life project and a seismic station, would continue at Oak Ridge—the site’s future is unclear...
...that reason, Griffin wants to decommission the fleet in 2010, meeting the U.S.'s commitment to its international partners to complete the space station, and nothing more. But the shuttle also means jobs--many in politically pivotal Florida--and that gives it a lot of support. In July, House Democrats negotiated a provision out of a budget bill that would have codified the 2010 deadline. And Science Committee chairman Representative Sherwood Boehlert of New York remains a loyal shuttle supporter. "Nothing is in jeopardy except the schedule," he said...
...WHAT MIGHT BE DONE ABOUT IT . . . The Discovery crew will be testing several new ways NASA has devised to diagnose and fix launch damage before a shuttle returns to Earth ?THE SPACE STATION Astronauts aboard the space station are taking high-resolution photographs of each shuttle before it docks with the station. That's one way the small "divots," or scrapes--including the one near the nosewheel well--were found on Discovery's underbelly ?THE ROBOTIC ARM Discovery is equipped with a new 50-ft. (15.2-m) robotic arm that will reach out from the cargo...
...apparently had intended to inflict carnage on a comparable scale--provided a measure of relief to a jittery city. In Birmingham, in the center of England, police snared Yasin Hassan Omar, allegedly the man shown on closed-circuit-television tapes who was planning to bomb the Warren Street underground station. The Peabody bust netted Ibrahim Muktar Said, suspected of trying to bomb a bus in east London, and Ramzi Mohammed, who fled from the Oval station after allegedly leaving a bomb. And in Italy, authorities announced they had caught Osman Hussain (also referred to as Hussain Osman by British police...
...RESIGNING. HONG SEOK HYUN, 55, South Korean Ambassador to the U.S.; amid a scandal surrounding the country's 1997 presidential election; in Seoul. He announced his resignation after a local TV station claimed it had obtained part of a recorded conversation between Hong, then publisher of the newspaper JoongAng Ilbo, and Lee Hak Soo, a high-ranking Samsung executive, in which the two discussed the powerful conglomerate's possible channeling of illegal funds to presidential candidates. South Korean lawmakers have demanded an independent investigation into the alleged payoffs, which Lee reportedly said on the tape were authorized by Samsung chairman...