Dawn Abraham Bids Tearful Kiss Before Tito ISS Flight
Dawn Abraham blows a kiss to her partner Dennis Tito through a glass screen at Baikonur on Friday, the eve of the blastoff for the ISS mission. Tito, the world’s first space tourist, pays up to 20 million dollars for a weeklong trip with cosmonauts Talgat Musabayev and Yuri Baturin.
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Russians agree to holding orbit if needed
NASA engineers race to revive failing Destiny computers aboard the space station as Endeavour nears departure. Russia agrees to place the Soyuz in a holding pattern if the shuttle remains docked beyond Monday, delaying the passengers and complicating orbital logistics.
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Electra and Sisqo to Host 2001 World Music Awards
Carmen Electra and Sisqo will host the 2001 World Music Awards in Monte Carlo taped midweek and aired on ABC in May. Performers include Shaggy Nelly Enya Nelly Furtado Christina Aguilera Rod Stewart the Backstreet Boys and Ricky Martin. Stewart to receive lifetime achievement award and all ticket proceeds go to Princess Grace Hospital and the Monaco Aide and Presence Foundation.
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Rather and CBS News honored with Quinn Award in LA
Dan Rather and CBS News receive the Joseph M Quinn Award for journalistic excellence from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. CBS President Leslie Moonves will present the award on June 9 at the 43rd Southern California Journalism Awards.
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Tommy Lee Defends Jail Break in Civil Trial Testimony
Tommy Lee says the four months he spent in jail in 1998 helped him focus on music and writing lyrics. He testified in Manhattan federal court defending allegations he used the name Methods of Mayhem from a CD with the same title after pleading no contest to assaulting Pamela Anderson.
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O'Connor Collaborates With Brother on Lazy B Memoir
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day co author a family memoir titled Lazy B to be published by Random House in spring 2002. The book chronicles three generations of the Day family linked to the Arizona Lazy B ranch and reflects on a vanishing American lifestyle.
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Plaque Marks Te Homeward Bound Site at Widnes Station
A plaque at a small English railway station claims Paul Simon wrote Homeward Bound there during a 1964 British tour. Locals debate the exact location as Widnes once had two stations, one still in use, while officials and a lecturer question the writing claim.
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