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Data tape could reveal problems with Columbia
The Associated Press
CAPE CANVERAL, Fla.
An early look at the magnetic tape from the space shuttle Columbia's salvaged data recorder offered hope that it was in good enough shape to yield some information about the doomed flight, NASA said yesterday.
Discovered in east Texas on Wednesday, the recorder and its 9,400 feet of tape is stretched and broken in one spot but otherwise in good condition, said NASA spokesman James Hartside.
"Right now, the potential for
The recorder—potentially the most significant piece of debris found yet—is in the laboratory of a Minnesota company that specializes in magnetic data storage, and its tape is being painstakingly cleaned.
there to be data available to us looks promising," he said.
NASA believes the tape stopped recording about the time the shuttle broke apart above Texas on Feb. 1, killing all seven astronauts. It had recorded Columbia's launch 16 days earlier and was activated again for the start of descent.
The recorder was collecting data from about 800 sensors on the fuselage, wings, tall and engines, and measuring temperature, pressure, strain, vibration, acoustics and acceleration. Harrisfield said.
The accident investigation board suspects Columbia's left wing was breached, possibly by flyaway foam insulation or other fuel-tank debris during liftoff, and that the scorching gases of atmospheric en-entry burned through wiring in the wing and penetrated the left landing gear compartment.
Late Friday night, NASA shipped the recorder to Innaion Corp. in Oakdale, Minn., a leading manufacturer of data storage tape with 50 years of experience/
"The majority of tape on the take-up reel appears in very good shape" he said. "They're just starting to work with it now, but I can tell you that there's optimism from the visible appearance."
Once the tape is cleaned and stabilized by Inimation, it will be sent to Kennedy Space Center where the playback and dubbing equipment is located. The
dubbed tapes subsequently will be sent to Johnson Space Center in Houston for analysis.
So far, about 45,000 pieces of shuttle wreckage have been found and shipped to Kennedy. That represents about 54,000 pounds, or 24 percent of the weight of the descending shuttle.
The investigation board will be in Cape Canaveral this week for its third round of public hearings. Kennedy officials will discuss the collection and layout of Columbia debris at the space center.
'Chicago' spurs musical trend
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Now that Chicago has been crowned with the best picture Oscar and continues to draw drowses to theaters, Hollywood stars and producers say they are eager to revive the long-dormant musical.
Many argued, however, that new projects should be chosen carefully, lest movegoers grow fatigued of the genre again.
The path to victory for Chicago was cleared last year by Baz Luhrmann's frenetic popsong romance Moulin Rouge, which brought the musical back into style with critics and became the first live-action musical to earn a best-picture Oscar nomination in 22 years. The last musical to win was 1968's Oliver!
Martin Richards, who co-produced the original Broadway version of Chicago and spent more than 28 years trying to bring it to the screen, said his Oscar gives new momentum to other film musical aspirations.
Among his dream projects is Sweeney Todd, the Stephen Sondheim musical thriller about the murderous "demon barber of
Fleet Street," a Victorian era barber who slits the throats of his London customers while his partner in crime disposes of the bodies by baking them into her meat pies.
But Richards warned that Hollywood shouldn't dilute the public's newfound enthusiasm for musicals by flooding cineplexes with hackneyed song and dance.
Richards' other interest is an adaptation of the stage show *The Life*, about gritty happenings in New York's Times Square.
"I just hope that they don't do one musical after another just because it's the flavor of the week," he said.
Besides its six Oscars Chicago is likely to motivate studios with its box-office success, having collected about $134 million.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, who won a supporting actress Oscar for her role in Chicago as a jazz star who fears losing her lame more than facing a murder charge, said she'd love to do it again but echecd Richards' plea for restraint.
"Let's not have one every other month, but I would love to do another one just to have the ball I
did on this movie," she said.
Clint Eastwood's *Unglforgiven* revived the Western in 1992 and went on to win the best picture Academy Award. It was followed by Gerionto "An American Legend," and Tombstone (both 1993) until low-grade follow-ups such as *Bad Girls* (1994) and *Pusse* (1993) turned audiences off the genre again.
Elliot Goldenthal, who won best score on Sunday for his work on Frida, said the entertainment industry should focus on developing original projects instead of reviving old stage musicals or having stars sing pop tunes in films.
Miramax Pictures, which produced Chicago, is now close to a deal to make a movie out of the gangster song-and-dance play Guys and Dolls and the company also owns the rights to Broadway's Rent, spokesman Matthew Hiltzik said.
"Basically, Moulin Rouge played a critical role reacquaint audiences with the movie musical," he said. "Chicago built on that success and the best-picture Oscar will serve as a seal of approval for even more younger audiences to see the films."
Civil disobedience leads to arrests
From San Francisco to Hartford, Conn., people balk at Bush
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Anti-war activists returned to federal buildings and campuses across the nation yesterday, resulting in more arrests but no reports of violence.
At the same time, there were reports of grass-roots groups forming in small towns to show support for the troops, and counter-demonstrators made sure they were heard during anti-war events.
transmetrica rymanic building and at the federal building for refusal to disburse, police said.
In the fifth day of protests for San Francisco, 123 people were arrested at the city's famed
At least 50 people were arrested in Hartford, Conn., after blocking the entrances to the William R. Cotter Federal Building while calling for an end to the war in Iraq. About 100 people attended the rally, saying they chose the building because it houses offices of the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration.
"We're demonstrating to show the connection between money for taxes and Social Security vs. money for war," said Derek Wright, 23.
Hartford after they staged a "dien" in the lobby, slumping to the floor and pouring buckets of red dye on themselves.
Another 14 people were arrested at the headquarters of defense contractor United Technologies Corp. in downtown
At the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, a few hundred people rallied against the war, saying they would continue although some accused them of being unpatriotic. One carried a sign that read, "Stop mad cowboy disease."
"I look out here today, and I see all of America out here," said Erika Zurawski, a sophomore. "I see every class, race and gender . . . so, Mr Bush, welcome to America."
About 50 counter-protesters make to their own chant heard: "One, two, three, four, we don't want Saddam no more!" One of them said it was important for troops to hear support.
Women,men equal in status,not salary
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Women hold nearly half the executive and managerial jobs in the United States, but they fall short of men at the top rungs of the salary ladder.
Nearly 46 percent of management positions were filled by women in 2002, the Census Bureau reported yesterday, up from only about a third in 1983 but virtually unchanged from the record high set in 2001.
Almost 16 percent of men working full-time earned at least $75,000 a year, compared with 6 percent of women. And 20 percent of men made between $50,000 and $75,000, compared to 12 percent of women, according to a bureau survey taken in March 2002.
"In my lifetime, there will still be a wage gap," said Betty Spence, president of the National Association of Female Executives. "It's up to women in senior positions to bring other women up, or else it's not going to happen."
Some women have scaled back careers to raise children, but discrimination also is partly to blame for the salary disparities, said Amy Cainzza of the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
It may also be because of the kind of management positions women hold that has led to the gap at the highest income brackets. Men still dominate the corporate boardrooms and the jobs that earn a six-figure salary, while the inroads women are making in supervisory posts may be concentrated more in lesser-paying lower- and mid-management positions, Cauzza said.
Caliazza said the government could do more to encourage gender equity.
"There's a point at which we have to be more serious about enforcing equal opportunity and anti-discrimination laws," she said.
Overall, there are slightly
more women than men in the United States _ women made up 51 percent of the country's 282.2 million people in March 2002. Men outnumber women in the work force 53-47 percent.
Nearly one-quarter of the 63.6 million employed women age 16 and older in 2002 worked in administrative or clerical positions, larger than any other field.
Another 19 percent of women worked in professional specialty fields, which includes engineering, doctors and teachers. The next two most popular areas for women were service-related jobs and management and executive positions.
When the economy was booming in the late 1990s, more companies sought to entice women by offering flexible schedules that would allow them to spend more time at home with children. But with the economy slipping and unemployment rising, employers aren't being as flexible.
That may be hindering many women from advancing in the workplace, said Kirsten Ross, founder of Womans-Work LLC, which helps women find alternative arrangements to balance job responsibilities with family.
"The women of the generation before us, their fight was to get in the boardroom. Now for this generation of women, their fight is to gain more flexibility." Ross said.
A separate Census Bureau report last week showed that earning levels for women are at record highs, with those holding college diplomas especially benefiting. The number of women with at least a bachelor's degree is also at a record high.
Last September, the bureau also reported that median earnings for women who worked full-time rose 3.5 percent to $29.215, compared with $38.275 for men.