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...what space buffs call the industry's "Charles Lindbergh moment," SpaceShipOne ferried passengers to space twice within two weeks to win the $10 million X Prize which, coincidentally, was sponsored by the family of Anousheh Ansari, the Dallas high-tech entrepreneur who is currently visiting the International Space Station as a paying customer...
...Departments can’t talk to each other,” he said. “If there’s an emergency and we go down [into a station] and, say, the Cambridge Fire Department goes down there—they can’t talk...
...officer in the region said was slipping into the control of al- Qaeda? I figured someone owed candidate Webb a serious conversation about Iraq last week, and so we sat down to discuss how he would end the war. Webb pointed out that most U.S. troops in Iraq are stationed in four large forward operating bases (FOBS), part of an implicit U.S. strategy to maximize "force protection"-that is, to limit casualties. In fact, there has been a fierce internal debate within the Army about whether to take the troops out of the FOBS and station them closer...
...Melvin Nicholas stood out in the crew-cut, uniformed staff. The breast of his white lab coat was smothered in goodwill medals given to him by VIP guests. His accent was effeminate and Mississippian. He held the lowly title of medical support technician. But from behind the nurse's station, where he worked, everyone knew who was in charge...
...about it. And giving up her baby gave the child a chance at a good life, at least in the eyes of Donna Leavitt, who with her husband Rob ended up adopting the girl: "I can't help but think that the safe-surrender sign at the fire station helped lead Tessa to us." The Leavitts would love for their daughter to meet her birth mom. But in most cases that is unlikely, since the law allows surrendering parents to be anonymous. "Many of these mothers do not like their babies," says Magnusen. "We're not asking them to love...