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“Truth in Space” was the ironic headline that ran that same day in the Washington Post. The night before the launch of Challenger, the story said, Engineers at Morton Thiokol begged officials not to go ahead. They feared precisely what appears to have occurred: that cold weather at the launch site would stiffen troublesome O-rings used as seals in

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Six smart sentences will suffice!

The ethical issue of universal coverage—Professor Hsiao’s “first question”—was not part of the conversation.

• Assign responsibility.

He was college president until 1973; he ran for the Senate in 1976, aged seventy, becoming a Republican for the first time.

Dear Dr. Fletcher: We are greatly disturbed by testimony of May 2 to the Rogers Commission that strongly suggests that Morton Thiokol, Inc., and at least one NASA official, have attempted to control the flow of information to the Commission through acts of intimidation and punishment. In evaluating that testimony, it appears that a Morton Thiokol e

“Short, not shallow,” is what we tell our reporters.