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NASA's plan for unstable astronauts: Duct tape, tranquilizers
POSTED: 4:03 p.m. EST, February 23, 2007

Story Highlights
• NASA has a plan for dealing with a mentally unstable astronaut in space
• Instructions: Bind the astronaut's wrists and ankles and tie them down
• Inject the out-of-control astronaut with tranquilizers if necessary
• A gun would not be used; a bullet could pierce a spaceship and kill everyone

Article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/02/23/astronaut.plan.ap/index.html

In Samarra, rubble marks grim anniversary

SAMARRA, Iraq (AP) -- A year ago, the bombing of this city's revered Shiite mosque set off a spasm of sectarian violence that has pushed the country toward greater, more widespread violence.

The mosque remains closed, its golden dome still a mound of rubble and wires amid the wave of hatred that has made renovation work too dangerous to begin.

Officials in the Sunni city and the Shiite-led government are hoping to change that with ambitious plans to bring in a brigade of Iraqi forces numbering some 2,500 to secure the site as well as the road leading south from Samarra to Baghdad.
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Complete Article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/22/iraq.samarra.ap/index.html

check out the cover story for this weeks TIME, its about all the factors which influence why shia's and sunni's hate eachother, intersting stuff. personally, i think the writer sided with the sunni's, but that's just me.