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LOOK SHARP AT SEA DriDuds, a new line of waterproof outfits, above, $45, repels wind and water and weighs less than a pound. Other angling garb: Frogg Toggs' $19 Chilly Pad and $16 Hydroweave Cap, a towel and hat for beating boat heat. Wet them and they stay cool for hours...
...sound of twin sonic booms just after 8 a.m. ET never sounded so good to NASA, signalling re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere after the craft and its heat shield tiles survived the hottest part of the descent at some 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. "We're happy to be home," Discovery commander Eileen Collins transmitted to NASA from the Edwards runway. NASA was happy too-although everyone would have been even happier had they landed in Florida, as scheduled. Unfortunately, cloud cover and lightning forced the landing in California...
...shuttle was deemed necessary to pull cloth from between tiles, again to err on the side of caution. And despite the smaller amount of foam debris hits, NASA admits that the largest chunk to fall could have been equally disastrous had it hit the shuttle's wing or a heat-shielding tile elsewhere on the craft...
...What happened is the stuff of legend: in dense bush and on vertiginous mountain tracks, in sweltering heat and freezing cold, the young men checked and halted the Japanese advance. When the battle-hardened Australian 7th Division arrived back from the Middle East in support, the Japanese were doomed. Here in New Guinea, wrote Winston Churchill in his history of the conflict, "the tide of war" had turned. One measure of the intensity of the fighting is the fact that of Australia's 20 Victoria Crosses in the war, 12 were won in the Pacific. The Commonwealth's supreme decoration...
...show myself. So I just stood up and that was it. I was in it." Before he went to sleep that night, and in all the days of battle after it, the young private didn't think again about what had happened on May 15, 1945, in the steamy heat of New Guinea...