Flight from moscow - Marcos Pontes Recovers

Marcos Pontes Recovers
Discovery News - April 10, 2006 A beaming Marcos Pontes returned to Earth on Sunday from an 11-day trip that made him Brazil's first astronaut, and was greeted on the Kazakh steppe by a search and rescue team and exultant Brazilian officials. The Soyuz capsule

Carson couple spent lives clowning around, seriously
Nevada Appeal - Passing him on the street, with his flat-front chinos and crisp button-down shirt, Tom Tomashek looks like a typical senior citizen. The salt-and-pepper hair and reserved demeanor exude an air of sophistication, perhaps of a a stockbroker or an

SPORTS IN BRIEF
Lewiston Morning Tribune - COEUR D' ALENE -- Idaho District II teams swept the prep Team of the Year awards and Moscow's Kelsey Taylor won Female Prep Athlete of the Year at the 44th annual North Idaho Sports Banquet at the Coeur d'Alene Inn. > On this day April 10, 1977

Depth a draft priority
Atlanta Journal Constitution - "All of the evaluations are complete," Falcons vice president and general manager Rich McKay said Wednesday. "The scouts are in this week and will be in again next week." The draft is April 29-30 in New York. The first order of business for the

Astronauts land back on Earth
Los Angeles Daily News - ARKALYK, Kazakhstan American, Russian and Brazilian astronauts endured a bone-jarring, 3 -hour ride from the International Space Station back to Earth on Sunday, landing on target in the freezing Kazakh steppe. The Russian TMA-7 capsule carried

Giuliani addresses leadership, immigration
Chicago Flame - Giuliani jokes of the Pope describing New York as the capital of the world during last Tuesday's Richard J. Daley Urban Forum. Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said last Tuesday that the nation is "falling down" the most when it comes to