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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Meantime, back in Florida, Endeavour waits in case it's needed. There too, people are feeling a little jumpy. Earlier Tuesday, Pad B was struck by lightning - though Endeavour shook it off without any damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Shuttle: Same Old Damage, Same Old Worries | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...room with DJ Straus—found what they wanted in the Lev Old Library. Across the hall in the JCR, formal-goers enjoyed a tasty chocolate fountain while random revelers, presumably aided by the free-flowing open bar (FlyBy and friends had no problem doubling up on drinks), struck up tunes on the piano...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, D. PATRICK Knoth, and Amy Sun | Title: BALLin! FlyBy’s Formal Reviews Pt. III | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...schools collapsed and how the students died," says Ai. "If anybody tries to hide it, it is a crime to the people and the nation. This time I don't think anybody can let it go." (See pictures of the quake zone six months after the disaster struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Year After Sichuan Quake, Citizens Press for Answers | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...allows the photographs to be released, he'll be "needlessly endangering the lives of our brave troops," as David Rehbein, national commander of the American Legion, put it in Friday's Wall Street Journal. Pentagon officials expect Obama will allow the pictures' release. According to the deal struck between the Pentagon and the ACLU, that should happen by May 28, just in time for Memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Detainee Photo Scandal: Get Ready for Abu Ghraib, Act II | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...began scrambling to lower its scope ahead of its May 7 launch in Prague. Just hours before the gathering, for example, German and Dutch officials pushed to change wording in the official document to refer to the six EaP postulates as "partner countries" rather than "European countries". They similarly struck any language that even remotely hinted at possible E.U. membership for any time in the future, and revised a "long-term goal" previously described as "visa-free travel" by EaP citizens to the E.U. down to more modest "visa liberalization" for certain business people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E.U. Backtracks on its Eastern European Partners | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

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