Pentagon pushes quality of life to bolster troops in 2001 budget
Defense leaders seek bigger pay raises, cheaper off base housing, and broader health care access to attract recruits and retain personnel amid a tight economy. The plan advances Tricare reforms and a cut in off base housing cost shares, but omits full 65+ veterans' health benefits due to cost. The administration stresses troops as the lifeblood of national security in an election year.
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Endeavour radar mapping hit by shuttle thruster issue
NASA faced a valve leak on the Endeavour radar antenna mast causing extra thruster use to stabilize the 197 foot mast. The issue could shorten mapping by about eight hours, but scientists still aimed to map over 70 percent of Earth from Hudson Bay to Cape Horn.
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Light rail crash at BWI injures conductor and riders
A single car light rail train arriving at Baltimore Washington International Airport struck a safety barrier at the end of the line injuring the conductor and 22 passengers. Six were transported by ambulance and one person was in serious condition at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The train diverted from Penn Station and was traveling about 13 miles per hour when it collided as brakes screeched.
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Episcopalians Leave Gay Unions to Individual Dioceses
A long delayed Episcopal Church report declines to take a position on same sex unions and proposes dioceses decide whether to bless gay marriages. The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music says the church is not ready to define homosexual life, continuing an unofficial policy that angers conservatives.
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Spacecraft nears asteroid s orbit
A robot craft that missed its mark a year ago is on target for a Valentine s Day rendezvous with the asteroid Eros. NEAR will enter a yearlong orbit around the potato shaped space rock and study its gravity and surface.
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