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...bright May day, and the arts wing at Gustav A. Fritsche Middle School in Milwaukee, Wis., is hopping. In a band room, 21 members of the jazz ensemble are rehearsing Soul Bossa Nova with plenty of heart and impressive intonation, in preparation for a concert downtown. In another room, woodblocks, timpani and bells are whipping up a rhythmic frenzy as the 75-member Fritsche Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Elliott Del Borgo's Aboriginal Rituals. In an art room, eighth-graders are shaping clay vessels to be baked in the school kiln. Down the hall, students are dabbing acrylic paints on canvas...
...high-profile London groupie paid a backstage call last week on ROB LOWE, who was rehearsing for a West End production of A Few Good Men. "I've got my underwear on, and someone says, 'You have a visitor,'" says the ex-West Wing star. "Striding toward me, I see Tony Blair." The day before, Lowe told reporters that more Americans should visit London to show solidarity following the bombings. The British PM sought Lowe out to thank him. Lowe now becomes Britain's prettiest spokesperson since Princess...
...weather would soon seem irrelevant. At 8:53 a.m., when the ship was crossing over San Francisco, a data point flickered on monitors at Mission Control indicating that the flow of information recording the temperature of the hydraulic systems in Columbia's left wing had suddenly ceased. At 8:56, when the ship was somewhere over Utah, the temperature in the landing gear and brake lining--again on the left side--registered high. Two minutes later, three temperature sensors embedded in the skin on the left flank of the ship quit transmitting. A minute later, temperature sensors in the left...
...pinpoint the cause of all this horror, investigators will have a lot of places to turn. The mission began with at least one anomaly when, at the moment of launch, a piece of foam broke from the insulation on the giant external fuel tank and struck the left wing of the ship. "We spent a goodly amount of time reviewing the film [of the launch] and analyzing what that might do," says shuttle program manager Ron Dittemore. "From our experience it was determined that the event did not represent a safety concern...
...cases confronting the court deal not with the social issues that claim all the attention of warring interest groups but with business and commercial issues of regulation and property rights and workplace rules. There his experience with business clients would give him extra credibility, and last week the corporate wing of the Republican Party was grateful that at last the court would have a Justice who could at least speak its language if not always embrace its arguments...