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This page has a moment by moment description of the shuttle's return to earth. .< 12:36:20 PM  >Andrew Juby: "My roommate has access to Goddard Space Flight Center's Orbital Information group server. He can pull up data on just about any non-classified orbiting object. We checked it this morning and pulled up some data on Columbia, and ran it by the aerospace major across the hall. It appears that at about 2 or 3AM, as Columbia was into its descent, it pulled up." [Scripting News] .< 12:33:49 PM >Indian report on India's astronaut, Kalpana Chawla. [Scripting News] Thanks to Dave. I've been watching a number of news sources on tv and though they have all made much of the Israeli not one has talked about the Indian woman on borad. .< 12:31:10 PM > CNN has a series of photos showing the Shuttle breaking up. They were emailed to them from a man on the ground in Texas. [Scripting News].< 12:29:36 PM >My favourite episode -- What some noted Canadians have to say about The Simpsons: Jack Layton The Simpsons is the single most important influence on progressive social commentary on the world. [The Globe and Mail: Arts] .< 12:27:09 PM >Opera's upbeat man on the move In the first part of a monthly series on the creation of Toronto's Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, SANDRA MARTIN spends a very full day with Canadian Opera Company director Richard Bradshaw, just as his long-cherished dream of building a permanent home for the troupe is finally getting off the ground [The Globe and Mail: Arts] .< 12:24:08 PM >Mordecai then and now, forever If devotees of Richler's work have their way, the bard of St. Urbain Street will be raised to iconic status, JAMES ADAMS writes [The Globe and Mail: Arts] .< 12:20:00 PM >Bush approves nuclear response -- The Washington Times 'A classified document signed by President Bush specifically allows for the use of nuclear weapons in response to biological or chemical attacks, apparently changing a decades-old U.S. policy of deliberate ambiguity, it was learned by The Washington Times.' Terrifying. This is a truly evil man. History will vilify him. .< 12:16:37 PM >Poets Against the War 'I believe the only legitimate response to such a morally bankrupt and unconscionable idea is to reconstitute a Poets Against the War movement like the one organized to speak out against the war in Vietnam.' .< 12:11:39 PM >Space shuttle blows up over Texas The space shuttle Columbia blew up over Texas and crashed Saturday morning as it headed for a planned landing. The seven-member crew was killed. [CBC News] .< 2:06:05 AM >CBC Records/Les Disques SRC releases an all-Schubert CD with Pinchas Zukerman and NAC Orchestra 'Christopher Deacon, Managing Director of the NAC Orchestra added: "Our relationship with CBC Records/Les Disques SRC continues to result in exciting CDs, and allows us to provide these recordings to school children and educators. The sonic quality of this recording is fantastic - listening to it, one feels surrounded by the Orchestra." ' From a press release from last fall. I didn't see it until later. Nice! I was the engineer on this one. Natasha assisted. .< 1:20:18 AM >Mexican protests against US imports. Thousands of Mexican farmers protest in the capital against the regional trade pact, Nafta, which they say is destroying their livelihoods. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 12:58:30 AM >Saddam gets six more weeks. Blair gains extra time to win over waverers. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 12:53:34 AM >Bay of Fundy loses claim to world's highest tides 'Authorities at the Canadian Hydrographic Service, the agency responsible for mapping domestic waterways, have declared a tie between the famous tides of the Bay of Fundy and those of Ungava Bay on the northern coast of Quebec. The decision shatters decades-old assumptions, upheld by the Guinness Book of World Records and other sources, that Nova Scotia's Minas Basin, an offshoot of the Bay of Fundy, has the highest tidal ranges in the world.' There's a shocker! Ouch. I grew up in a house with a view on the Minas Basin. .< 12:34:41 AM >Philadelphia Daily News | 01/27/2003 | Invading Iraq not a new idea for Bush clique 'But in reality, Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, and a small band of conservative ideologues had begun making the case for an American invasion of Iraq as early as 1997 - nearly four years before the Sept. 11 attacks and three years before President Bush took office.
An obscure, ominous-sounding right-wing policy group called Project for the New American Century, or PNAC - affiliated with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld's top deputy Paul Wolfowitz and Bush's brother Jeb - even urged then-President Clinton to invade Iraq back in January 1998.' |
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