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WAYNE HALE of NASA, on the scrubbed launch of the space shuttle Discovery because of a faulty fuel-tank sensor...
Though his strength and endurance were failing, his tank was not yet completely empty. As the third period drew to a close, Ogunwole took down Kilic with a three-point move. He was then able to fight off his opponents’ subsequent attempts to regain points and secure the bronze...
...means worker.) Initially romanticized for their nonconformist attitudes when the trend was first spotted in the 1980s, the number of freeters has since grown to some 4 million, or about 20% of the country's 15- to 34-year-olds, according to the UFJ Institute, a Tokyo-based think tank. Now they're viewed as slackers, unproductive dropouts in a society that increasingly needs youthful economic vitality. Particular wrath is reserved for the "parasite singles"?freeters who maintain a high standard of living despite low pay (or zero pay) by moving in with...
...second-generation European Muslims--most of them European Union citizens--who are a security risk. "As E.U. citizens, they're eligible for U.S. visa waivers, which means they can represent a direct threat to the U.S.," says Robert Leiken of the Nixon Center, a Washington-based foreign policy think tank founded by the former President. "Local groups that are already in place, that grew up in Western Europe and can conduct surveillance for multiple bombings without arousing a great deal of suspicion--this can be an enormous problem." Right now the FBI has no evidence of any hard-core...
...into the station, where Lowry remembers "trails of blood going up the stairways." Nicolas Thioulouse, 27, a French architect, was in a train under Edgware Road station when a bomb exploded on a train on the adjacent track. "I had the feeling I was in a fish tank," says Thioulouse, "seeing people in the opposite car with their faces completely covered by blood." People tried to cheer each another up. A teenage girl had collapsed in tears but had a tissue with the word LIFE printed on it: Thioulouse told her she wouldn't die while she was holding...