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• Report: NASA inspector general not effective
Yet NASA is an agency with a history of cost overruns — last month the agency said a major Mars mission was going to cost $400 million more than budget — and the NASA chief acknowledged his office had a problem with calculating cost. NASA's ...
• Spider-Man to save Inauguration Day!
Quesada said that since the stories are set in the real world, there is a long history of presidents appearing in Spider-Man comics, from Franklin D. Roosevelt through to George W. Bush, who has appeared on several occasions. But Obama has the honor ...
• Some cities dropping criminal-history question
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Hoping to prevent convicts from being shut out of the work force, some major U.S. cities are eliminating questions from their job applications that ask whether prospective employees have ever been convicted of a crime. Most of the ...
• Death row inmate pulls out eye, says he ate it
HOUSTON - A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it. Andre Thomas, 25, was arrested for the fatal stabbings of his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old ...
• History traces a circle in coup-plagued Guinea
CONAKRY, Guinea - In this African capital nearly 25 years ago, an unknown army officer staged a coup, promising democracy. He won over the people by declaring he had come to power poor, and if they ever saw him with a nice car or big house they would ...