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...know about the rest of you, but if I had put a one-ton piece of granite in a courthouse rotunda in the middle of the night, I would have seen the inside of a jail cell. Brent Smith Denver, Colo...
...Apollo 1 crew to a launch-pad fire and nearly lost Apollo 13 on its way to the moon. Though a capsule was no guarantee of safety, and nothing really could be in an inherently dangerous business, the laws of physics that govern inertia and aerodynamics favor a five-ton bell-shaped capsule over a 100-ton winged shuttle. Among the early supporters of a capsule idea were many of the pilots and commanders in the astronaut corps, even though the shuttle has had no more enthusiastic constituents. "Would I fly a capsule?? says Brian Duffy, a recently retired shuttle...
...Update: Suspended from the bench for his refusal to remove a two-ton Ten Commandments monument from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roy Moore remains defiant as he fights to have his case heard in the United States Supreme Court. Moore spoke with TIME's Paige Bowers before the monument was removed...
...laws with regard to due process will remain a constant irritant in its diplomatic relations. The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Lorne Craner, calls Yang "one of the particular cases we now mention in all our discussions about political prisoners." But unless Washing- ton and other democratic governments are willing to back up verbal opprobrium with serious diplomatic consequences, China's leaders may never honestly face the difficult truth that Yang came home because he is a patriot...
...shadows the cabinet - of its executive powers, making it an advisory body only, and also allows for greater parliamentary scrutiny of military spending. Hospital Blast RUSSIA More than 41 people were killed and many more injured when a suicide bomber crashed a truck reportedly laden with more than a ton of explosives into the military hospital in Mozdok, the town in Northern Ossetia that is the principal rear base for the Russian war effort in Chechnya. The main hospital building was leveled. Last June a suicide bomber killed 20 people in the town, and Chechen guerrillas are known to move...