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Around the nationDate: 19.09.2006
Posted by: Anabolic Info Team United States
Space station has first emergency ever
HOUSTON — An oxygen generator on the international space station overheated and spilled a toxic irritant Monday, forcing the crew to don masks and gloves in the first emergency ever declared aboard the eight-year-old orbiting outpost.
NASA said the three crewmen's lives were never in any danger. They cleaned the spill with towels and a charcoal filter scrubbed the irritant out of the air. An emergency space capsule is parked at the outpost in case of a need to abandon ship.
The crew of space shuttle Atlantis inspected their ship's heat shield Monday. The routine survey found no evidence of damage and NASA cleared the heat shield for a planned landing at the Kennedy Space Center early Wednesday.
California
Strongman Hargitay dies in L.A. at 80
LOS ANGELES — Mickey Hargitay, the actor and world champion bodybuilder who was married to 1950s sex siren Jayne Mansfield and whose daughter is Emmy-winning actress Mariska Hargitay, has died. He was 80.
Hargitay died Thursday in Los Angeles. The cause of death was not released on Monday, when his death was revealed.
Born Miklos Hargitay in 1926, he emigrated from his native Hungary to the United States after World War II. He became interested in bodybuilding in the 1950s and was named Mr. Universe, Mr. America and Mr. Olympia in 1955.
Deficiencies denied in female scientists
WASHINGTON — Women in science and engineering are hindered not by lack of ability but by bias and "outmoded institutional structures" in academia, an expert panel reported Monday.
The panel, convened by the National Academy of Sciences, dismissed the idea that the relative dearth of women in the upper ranks of science might be the result of innate deficiencies, particularly in mathematics.
new jersey
Princeton shedding its early admissions
PRINCETON — Princeton University announced Monday it is ending its early admissions program.
In an e-mailed statement, Princeton President Shirley Tilghman said single-date admission would "encourage an even broader pool of excellent students to apply to Princeton, knowing that they will be considered at the same time and on the same terms as all other applicants." The program at New Jersey-based Princeton will start with the class entering in September 2008.
Early admissions programs allow high school seniors to file applications in the fall and receive an answer by December.
new hampshire
Parents charged in forced-abortion bid
salem — A Maine couple was charged Monday with kidnapping their pregnant 19-year-old daughter, who was bound and bundled into her parents' car to force her to have an emergency abortion.
Nicholas Kampf, 54, and his wife, Lola, 53, were arrested Friday in a New Hampshire parking lot after their daughter Katelyn escaped by persuading her parents to untie her so she could use a Kmart bathroom.
A court affidavit said her parents chased her out into the yard after an altercation, grabbed and tied her hands and feet together. Her father then gagged her and they drove toward New Hampshire.
Mark Dion of Maine's Cumberland County Police Department, said the Kampfs, who were held on bail of $100,000 each, appeared to have been angry that their daughter was pregnant by a man now in jail.
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