WORLD amp; NATION AT HOME
- March
- 18
8:34 am Live Crew
Spacewalking astronauts stepped outside last night to give
the space station’s new robot some eyes and a set of tools. It was the third spacewalk of shuttle Endeavour’s visit to the station, each one aimed at putting together Dextre, the giant robot. The last time astronauts floated out, Dextre got arms. This time, the robot was getting a tool belt and two cameras that will serve as eyes - interestingly, at waist level. The Supreme Court made a number of rulings yesterday: To step into a legal fight over “fleeting expletives,” or curse words, during live television broadcasts.
To intervene in a dispute over whether prosecutors can use crime lab reports as evidence without having the forensic analyst who prepared them testify at trial. To decide a case about the drawing of legislative boundaries that could affect the ability of minorities to elect their candidates of choice. To consider reinstating the murder conviction of the driver in a gang-related drive-by shooting that horrified Seattle in 1994. To hear the case of a Texas inmate who was sentenced to 43 years in prison in 1995 after pleading guilty to burglary and violating the terms of his probation. A Minneapolis bridge that collapsed last year, killing 13 people, had more than 577,000 pounds of construction materials and vehicles near a section where the failure occurred, a U.S. safety board said yesterday. The board is investigating whether the extra weight triggered the worst U.S. bridge collapse in 25 years. Younger ER patients with heart attack symptoms should be asked if they’ve recently used cocaine, which can cause similar chest pain, the American Heart Association warns doctors. For these patients, honesty can be a matter of life or death: Some heart attack treatments can be deadly to someone using cocaine. New guidelines published online yesterday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation say that emergency room doctors need to be aware that symptoms of a heart attack in younger patients with no heart disease risk factors may be caused by cocaine use. Adding to the litany of complaints about one of the nation’s primary counterterrorism safety nets, a Justice Department audit has concluded that the FBI provided the government-wide terrorism watch list with incomplete, inaccurate and outdated information about suspects for almost three years. As a result, many innocent people stayed on the “Consolidated Terrorist Watchlist” long after they were cleared of any wrongdoing, and real threats to national security were sometimes left off the list or not added to it in a timely manner, according to the audit, released yesterday by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine.
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