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Accusing NASA of negligence, the suit charges that its officials "knew or should have known that the segments of the right-hand solid rocket booster would not properly seal and that a catastrophic accident would likely occur." It also claims that in the seconds before flames from the leaking booster blew up the shuttle's main tank, Challenger Pilot Smith "knew of his impending death...
Prophecy became calamitous reality last week at the District of Columbia's Lorton Reformatory. Less than 48 hours after a report by Prison Consultant Kathryn Monaco predicted that "a major disturbance" could occur in the "near future" at the overcrowded prison in northern Virginia, Lorton inmates set fires that damaged at least 15 buildings. In rioting that followed, 27 inmates and six guards were injured...
Unfortunately, the escort service does not, as my roommate's story and many others like it prove, serve its true purpose: protecting Harvard students. As the program operates currently, it protects only Harvard from being responsible for incidents that occur on University property...
...multifarious products with the Statue of Liberty imprint: Liberty charcoal briquettes, Liberty beach towels, Liberty dry-roasted peanuts, Liberty tobacco. Moreover, Adams probably could not have conceived how practically everyone in a country of 240 million might be very nearly sated with a celebration that is yet to occur...
Though this scenario sounds like the plot for a made-for-TV movie, Eugene Shoemaker, a respected U.S. Geological Survey scientist, is concerned that just such an event--and an unwarranted reaction--could occur. Shoemaker expressed his fears at a recent Baltimore meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU): "The effect of a meteor blast appears the same as a high- altitude nuclear explosion," he said. "If this happens in the wrong place, people will think they've been nuked...