Pam Easton – The Mail & Guardian

Pam Easton

/ 3 August 2005

Astronaut pulls dangerous strips off shuttle

A spacewalking astronaut gently pulled two potentially dangerous strips of protruding filler from Discovery‘s tile belly with his gloved hand on Wednesday, successfully completing an unprecedented emergency repair. Astronaut Stephen Robinson said both pieces came out easily during the spacewalk.

By Pam Easton

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/ 4 August 2004

Cheney’s Halliburton to pay $7,5m fine

Halliburton will pay ,5-million to settle a United States Securities and Exchange Commission probe that it failed to disclose a change in its accounting procedures in 1998 when the oil services conglomerate was run by vice-president Dick Cheney. Cheney was Halliburton’s CEO from 1995 to 2000. He resigned to be President George Bush’s running mate.

By Pam Easton