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Hubble servicing mission's launch date threatened BY WILLIAM HARWOOD STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION Posted: March 21, 2008 With the shuttle Endeavour's mission entering the home stretch, shuttle Discovery remains on track for blastoff May 25 to ferry a huge Japanese laboratory module to the international space station. But subsequent near-term flights, including a high-profile mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, could be delayed, sources say, because of ongoing external tank production issues. The tank used by Endeavour for its current mission was the last in the inventory of tanks built before the...

When I was a boy, my parents used to enjoy a comedian named Ronnie Graham. One of his jokes was, "The other day a cat came up to me and said, 'How do I get to Carnegie Hall?' and I said 'Practice, man, practice.' This other cat came up to me and said, 'Meow.' He was a real cat." We talk a lot in our movement about spiritual practices. I am a Religious Science Practitioner; the root word of Practitioner is practice. But why do we practice? Ernest Holmes said that a central concept of our movement is "Perfect God,...

Am finalizing, polishing on a book project about PRESSURE that 9-15 year old male children experience, perceive themselves to experience. Would appreciate any experiences you or friends or extended family members have had in this ball park. Am interested in SOURCES, CAUSES, ISSUES, CONTEXTS, of PRESSURE as well as complications, solutions, preventions etc. I think I've fairly covered the waterfront but am assuming that that is unlikely in a thoroughly comprehensive way. Besides, there's so much wisdom amongst my loved-ones hereon, thought I'd risk a rare [for me] vanity and ask. If you know of someone with a story to...