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...return to Earth's atmosphere; in Utah. The probe, part of a $260 million mission to study the evolution of the solar system, captured solar particles 1.5 million kilometers from Earth on its 37-month journey. With its cargo considered too delicate for a hard landing, helicopters manned by stunt pilots were deployed to snare the craft as it drifted down?but the parachute mishap meant the saucer-shaped ship plummeted to Earth at almost 320 km/h. NASA researchers hope to recover much of the payload, about the weight of a few grains of salt, from the wreckage...
DIED. LARRY DESMEDT, 55, biker and custom-motorcycle builder known as Indian Larry who was a legend among biking enthusiasts; of injuries he suffered while performing an impromptu stunt for fans in a parking lot; in Charlotte, N.C. Once a favored subject of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who admired his "crash and burn" lifestyle, Desmedt won attention for a chopper he built in 1996 and dubbed Grease Monkey...
...campaign contributions, cash and other gifts in exchange for city contracts during his 1994-2002 tenure. Ten people who worked for him, including two top aides, have been convicted of corruption. DIED. LARRY DESMEDT, 55, biker and motorcycle builder known as "Indian Larry"; of injuries suffered while performing a stunt; in Charlotte, North Carolina. A favored subject of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who admired his "crash-and-burn" lifestyle, he was most famous for a chopper he built and dubbed "Grease Monkey." died. ALASTAIR MORTON, 66, South African-born executive who oversaw construction of the Channel Tunnel linking France and England...
America's space program owes an unexpected debt to Batman--as well as to Seabiscuit, the Hulk and dozens of other movie projects. Or at least it will, come early September, if a helicopter stunt pilot who sharpened his skills on all those films succeeds in bringing one of NASA's most unusual--and least known--spacecraft home safely. The ship is called Genesis, the helicopter pilot is Cliff Fleming, and together they may help NASA get its best-ever chance to examine a piece of the sun itself...
...clothes off to provoke the authoritarians in order to expose them." It's a far cry from life in Pakistan, which she has visited once, when she was 15: "I couldn't wait to get back to Norway, where people stop at red lights." Rehman's most controversial stunt came during a television appearance in April with Mullah Krekar, founder of the Kurdish militant group Ansar al-Islam, which has been accused of links with al-Qaeda. Rehman asked if Krekar would submit to a "fundamentalist test." When he agreed, she lifted him off the ground. Krekar was outraged, grabbed...