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2005-09- 13 |
The U.S. health department stated that Hurricane Katrina's death toll in
Louisiana climbed to 423 Tuesday, up from 279 a day before.
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The Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund announced that it has raised over $2 million in online donations. This announcement comes less than 6 hours after the Fund announced that it had raised $1 million dollars online in approximately 24 hours.
You can donate at
Bush Clinton Katrina Fund, the
fundraising effort is only available online.
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2005-09-05
(Picture:
US Constitution) U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist (R) swearing
in the 42nd President of the United States, William Jefferson
Clinton (L) on the U.S. Capitol steps. Clinton's daughter
Chelsea and then first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, holding the
Bible, look on. Then Vice-President Al Gore (upper left) and his
wife Tipper (upper right), are also pictured. January 20, 1997. |
US Senator Hillary Clinton (the wife of former president Bill Clinton) has urged President George W. Bush to set up a "Katrina Commission" to probe the government's response to the killer hurricane that has ravaged New Orleans and its surroundings, possibly killing thousands of people.
Clinton said she also planned to propose legislation to separate the Federal Emergency Management Agency from the Department of Homeland Security and convert it into a cabinet-level agency.
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2005-09-02 |
World leaders and ordinary citizens have expressed sympathy with the people of the southern United States whose lives were devastated by the hurricane and the flooding that followed.
World leaders and ordinary citizens have expressed sympathy with the people of the southern United States whose lives were devastated by the hurricane and the flooding that followed.
Everyone who lives in New Orleans and its surrounding areas has been scarred to varying degrees, some to levels that are unimaginable, depths from which they may never recover. And while the belief may be that those who were fortunate enough to be able to evacuate are the lucky ones, watching the destruction from a distance provides no comfort for those who have yet to contact family and friends, who really have no idea when they can return home, who don't yet know if there even is a home to return to.
There will be no forgetting this, now or ever, not with pictures burned into memory banks as if with a branding iron.
American Red Cross, 1-800-435-7669, P.O. Box 37243, Washington, D.C. 20013. You can donate at
www.redcross.org.
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2005-09-01
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Bush Clinton Katrina Fund:
Today,
the White House announced that the Former Presidents George H.W.
Bush and Bill Clinton will lead a private fundraising campaign to help
victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Hurricane Katrina has left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.
But thousands of people throughout the region are stepping up to offer
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2005-08-24
(Picture: LDEO) The
chemical composition of ocean-island lavas support the idea that the
Earth's deep mantle has been continually moving and mixing.
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Scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) have solved a long-standing contradiction about the workings of the deep Earth.
While some geochemists have argued that parts of the deep mantle have remained unchanged since the formation of the Earth, some geophysicists and others have believed that the entire mantle has been moving throughout geologic time. The question of whether the deep-Earth changes is central to scientists' understanding of the process of heat loss from deep beneath the surface.
LDEO earth scientists Cornelia Class and Steven Goldstein now show that the evidence favors a moving mantle, with the deepest parts of the Earth affected by the same tectonic processes that occur at the surface. The study appears in the Aug. 25 issue of the journal Nature.
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(Picture: NASA) Just before dawn, External Tank 119 (ET-119) rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to be shipped back to its Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Lousiana. Credit: NASA/KSC. Click to enlarge.
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NASA Ships Shuttle External Tank Back to Factory: A shuttle external tank began a voyage today from Kennedy Space Center back to the manufacturing plant in Louisiana as part of the investigation into why Discovery's fuel tank lost foam during its trip into space.
The orange tank was loaded onto a covered barge for the water trip to the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
Officials said it might be used as a test bed and might eventually be modified to be used as the tank for Discovery's mission tentatively set for March 2006.
The tank - called ET-119 - was originally set to fly into space on the third return-to-flight mission following the 2003 Columbia accident.
Five oversized pieces of insulating foam fell off Discovery’s external fuel tank July 26, during the first shuttle launch to test safety reforms made in the wake of the Columbia disaster. NASA needs several months to study and then fix the fuel tanks it has on hand.
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2005-08- 21
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The Space Shuttle is the world's first reusable spacecraft, and the first spacecraft in history that can carry large satellites both to and from orbit. The Shuttle launches like a rocket, maneuvers in Earth orbit like a spacecraft and lands like an airplane. Each of the three Space Shuttle orbiters now in operation -- Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour -- is designed to fly at least 100 missions. So far, altogether they have flown a combined total of less than one-fourth of that.
Image left: The components of the Space Shuttle system: Orbiter, External Tank, and Solid Rocket Boosters. Photo Credit: NASA
Columbia was the first Space Shuttle orbiter to be delivered to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., in March 1979. Columbia and the STS-107 crew were lost Feb. 1, 2003, during re-entry. The Orbiter Challenger was delivered to KSC in July 1982 and was destroyed in an explosion during ascent in January 1986. Discovery was delivered in November 1983. Atlantis was delivered in April 1985. Endeavour was built as a replacement following the Challenger accident and was delivered to Florida in May 1991. An early Space Shuttle Orbiter, the Enterprise, never flew in space but was used for approach and landing tests at the Dryden Flight Research Center and several launch pad studies in the late 1970s.
The Space Shuttle consists of three major components: the Orbiter which houses the crew; a large External Tank that holds fuel for the main engines; and two Solid Rocket Boosters which provide most of the Shuttle's lift during the first two minutes of flight. All of the components are reused except for the external fuel tank, which burns up in the atmosphere after each launch.
The longest the Shuttle has stayed in orbit on any single mission is 17.5 days on mission STS-80 in November 1996. Normally, missions may be planned for anywhere from five to 16 days in duration. The smallest crew ever to fly on the Shuttle numbered two people on the first few missions. The largest crew numbered eight people. Normally, crews may range in size from five to seven people. The Shuttle is designed to reach orbits ranging from about 185 kilometers to 643 kilometers (115 statute miles to 400 statute miles) high.
The Shuttle has the most reliable launch record of any rocket now in operation. Since 1981, it has boosted more than 1.36 million kilograms (3 million pounds) of cargo into orbit. More than than 600 crew members have flown on its missions. Although it has been in operation for almost 20 years, the Shuttle has continually evolved and is significantly different today than when it first was launched. NASA has made literally thousands of major and minor modifications to the original design that have made it safer, more reliable and more capable today than ever before.
Since 1992 alone, NASA has made engine and system improvements that are estimated to have tripled the safety of flying the Space Shuttle, and the number of problems experienced while a Space Shuttle is in flight has decreased by 70 percent. During the same period, the cost of operating the Shuttle has decreased by one and a quarter billion dollars annually -- a reduction of more than 40 percent. At the same time, because of weight reductions and other improvements, the cargo the Shuttle can carry has increased by 7.3 metric tons (8 tons.)
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2005-08-19
(Picture taken by Lori
Losey, NASA)
The Space Shuttle Discovery hitched a ride on NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for the flight from the Dryden Flight Research Center in California, to Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 19, 2005. The cross-country ferry flight to return Discovery to Florida after it's landing in California will take two days, with stops at several intermediate points for refueling.
(Picture taken byCarla Thomas, NASA) TNASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with
the Space Shuttle Discovery on top lifts off from Edwards Air
Force Base to begin its ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida. The cross-country journey will take two days,
with stops at several intermediate points for refueling.
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Last Leg of Discovery's Journey Delayed: Space shuttle Discovery will have to wait a day to complete the last leg of its trip home. Discovery had been expected to arrive at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday after riding piggyback atop a jumbo jet across the country, but NASA delayed the trip for a day because of weather concerns. An Air Force KC-135 has flown ahead of the shuttle and the modified Boeing 747 to monitor weather along the route. The expected cost of the trip: at least $1 million.
Discovery and its seven-member crew touched down Aug. 9 in California's Edwards Air Force Base after low clouds and lightning prevented the shuttle from returning to Florida during four earlier opportunities.
After landing, Discovery underwent maintenance inside a steel structure on the base two hours north of Los Angeles. Crews purged the shuttle of hazardous substances, removed fuel from the on-board tanks and attached a 10,000-pound aluminum tail cone to eliminate drag during flight.
Discovery's homecoming has been tempered by uncertainties about the shuttle program's future. The same foam problems that doomed the shuttle Columbia 2 1/2 years ago showed up during Discovery's liftoff, prompting NASA to ground all shuttle flights until 2006 so engineers could find a solution.
A chunk of foam insulation broke off Discovery's redesigned external fuel tank during liftoff on July 26, but unlike in Columbia's case, the foam missed hitting Discovery. Columbia disintegrated over Texas, killing all seven astronauts on board.
NASA ground crews who inspected Discovery after its return from orbit found little damage to its exterior.
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India's New Worldly Women: When the first American music videos
and popular TV shows began appearing in Indian homes in the early
1990s thanks to satellite and cable, many pundits predicted Indian
society would never be the same. For the first time, young Indian
women saw a regular dose of sexy, scantily clad divas shimmying.
Female viewers also saw independent, successful women -- think Ally
McBeal -- and fun, sensitive guys a la Friends. Sex and divorce were
openly discussed in these TV imports and couples kissed passionately
-- then still a taboo in Indian TV shows and movies. Indeed, the
impact on younger generations of Indian women has been profound.
Whereas Indian women traditionally have been submissive to parents
and husbands and valued frugality and modesty, a number of
sociological studies show that young Indian females now prize
financial independence, freedom to decide when to marry and have
children, and glamorous careers.
Fifty-one percent of young single women in major metro areas say
it's necessary to have a big house and big car to be happy. In
smaller cities, 86% agreed with this statement.
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2005-08-15
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Koizumi Sorry for Japan's WWII Aggression: Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi apologized Monday for Japan's wartime colonization
and invasions on the 60th anniversary of its surrender in World War
II, and he stayed away from a shrine criticized for glorifying the
aggression that provoked two atomic bombings.
Emperor Akihito, the son of wartime Emperor Hirohito, and other Japanese officials gathered at an assembly hall for a moment of silence.
Koizumi's apology was his second statement of regret for the war to Asian neighbors this year.
The war's legacy lingers in Asia, where many of Japan's neighbors accuse Tokyo of failing to atone fully for invading them and colonizing the Korean peninsula and Taiwan. The issue has stirred opposition to Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council.
China called on Tokyo to face up to its wartime aggression and urged Koizumi not to visit the Yasukuni
war shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, including executed war
criminals. Protesters in Hong Kong, which Japan occupied in
1941-1945, marched on the Japanese consulate, chanting, "Japan's
hands are full of fresh blood!"
North and South Korea used Liberation Day, a
national holiday in both countries, to
reconcile political differences that have
kept the peninsula divided since World War
II ended. Both nations used a fiber-optic
cable laid across the heavily fortified
inter-Korean border to enable about 40
separated families to talk over video links.
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2005-08-12
(Picture taken by Life
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Nurse in "V-J Day" Photo Unveils Statue of the Kiss: The woman in an iconic photograph of an American sailor rapturously kissing a nurse during a V-J Day parade unveiled a sculpture of the clinch on Thursday, saying she still doesn't know who kissed her 60 years ago.
The woman in an iconic photograph of an American sailor rapturously kissing a nurse during a V-J Day parade unveiled a sculpture of the clinch on Thursday, saying she still doesn't know who kissed her 60 years ago.
"The guy grabbed me, I closed my eyes and after he left me alone, I walked away," said Edith Shain, a petite and still-spry woman who just turned 87.
"Of course I let him kiss me because he had been in the war and he had fought for me so I was real happy to do what I could," she told reporters, standing next to the sculpture that will be in a Times Square traffic island until August 14. "I wasn't shocked because everyone was being kissed, and why not? It was a great day."
Taken in Times
Square and entitled
"V-J Day," the
picture by Life
magazine
photographer Alfred
Eisenstadt came to
symbolize the
euphoria as crowds
celebrated the
Allied victory in
Japan at the end of
World War Two on
August 14, 1945.
The day provided the opportunity for Eisenstaedt to photograph the image for which he is possibly most famous. "I saw a sailor running along the street grabbing any and every girl in sight." he explained. "Whether she was a grandmother, stout, thin, old, didn't make any difference. I was running ahead of him with my Leica looking back over my shoulder...Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. I turned around and clicked the moment the sailor kissed the nurse." Eisenstaedt was very gratified and pleased with this enduring image. "People tell me that when I am in heaven they will remember this picture."
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The 2005 Perseid Meteor Shower -- Meteor 'Outburst' Expected Friday
Morning :
Mars joins the Perseid meteor shower for a beautiful display on August 12th.
For as long as records exist, the Perseid meteor showers have always been
strong. This summer's Perseid shower will be exceptional. The moon
is mostly out of the way later in the night, and higher-than-normal
activity rates are expected over the United States. The Perseid shower's parent body, comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, is notable in being a comparatively huge comet in an orbit that passes close to Earth's orbit frequently. It measures 24-31 kilometers in diameter, 2 to 3 times the size of comet Halley, and is so big that the continuous ejection of water vapor and dust during its approach to the Sun does not move the comet much off course. It has spewed dust for at least 5,000 years and most likely thirty times longer. It has built a massive meteoroid stream, most of which is located just outside of Earth's orbit. Earth passes through the outer regions of that stream in July, and hits the center on August 12.
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Scientists Find Men Do Have Trouble Hearing Women: Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse -- women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's, a report said. The Daily Mail, quoting findings published in the specialist magazine
NeuroImage, said researchers at Sheffield university in northern England discovered startling differences in the way the brain responds to male and female sounds.
Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism, it said.
The findings may help explain why people suffering hallucinations usually hear male voices, the report added, as the brain may find it much harder to conjure up a false female voice accurately than a false male voice.
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2005-07-28 |
NASA Grounds Future Shuttle Flights: In continuing to succumb to "false schedule pressure," the seven panelists said, NASA failed to learn "lessons provided at the cost of the lives of 17 astronauts" -- seven on Columbia, seven aboard Challenger in 1986 and three Apollo 1 astronauts in a launch pad fire in 1967.
still searching for the cause of the potentially deadly foam insulation that fell off during the last shuttle launch and stung by a report that accused managers of being caught in a "cycle of smugness substituting for knowledge" -- announced yesterday the shuttle fleet will stay grounded at least until March.
Senior managers acknowledged that, despite two weeks of intensive study, they still don't know why a 1-pound chunk of foam peeled away from the fuel tank of the shuttle Discovery two minutes after launch. Nonetheless, the managers warned that future tanks will need hardware changes before the shuttle can fly again.
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