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...after Christine Schweiger's murder, more than a dozen local groups held a previously scheduled press conference to launch a petition drive to ban almost all handguns in the city. "Up until the past couple of months we've been doing what the N.R.A. wanted, and look where it's got us," says Dan Ullrich, spokesman for the Campaign for a Better Milwaukee. "Halfway measures haven't worked in other cities." The group hopes to collect the necessary . 20,300 signatures by mid-January, forcing the city council either to pass the ban or place it on the ballot...
...Your Man, the first interactive movie, last year had audiences pushing armrest buttons to guide the story. Dizzying, perhaps, but successful enough to launch another: Run for Your Life, about Manhattan bike messengers, now in production...
...launch date for the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission loomed during the waning days of November, NASA's veteran spin controllers did their best to lower public expectations. The seven astronauts who would ride into orbit aboard Endeavour faced the toughest assignment ever handed to a shuttle crew and the most complicated mission since the moonshots of two decades ago. They would have to wrestle huge pieces of machinery into tight spaces, disconnect and connect fragile electronic equipment, and make sure no loose screws damaged the delicate telescope -- all while wearing puffy pressure suits and bulky gloves in a vacuum...
...Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are developing airliners that would fly hundreds of passengers at up to 3.2 times the speed of sound. (The Concorde carries up to 100 passengers at twice the speed of sound.) And the agency wants to build a supersonic plane that would take off horizontally, launch satellites into space and return to earth...
...criticism of NASA, there are still plenty of people who believe that humanity has a basic need to explore the final frontier. Said Goldin on the eve of Endeavour's launch: "This is what we need to be doing. NASA exists to do bold, noble and innovative things. You can't make progress unless you take risks." The television audiences that watched the astronauts perform last week were much smaller than those that watched Neil Armstrong's first step onto the moon in 1969. But even the most jaded viewer had to be inspired by the sight...