Desire: HaTakliton HeHadash shel Bob Dylan (ebay)

Rare Israeli made Bob Dylan promo vinyl LP for "Desire" on the "CBS" label (86003). The cover looks different to all other issues of this record. On front cover you'll notice some Hebrew printing with the name of the artist and song titles.

    

Bush to NY, NJ, NH, PA, CT, etc: Buy Candles! (John Robb)

Bush opts to delay power grid improvement proposal. Why? A more efficient power grid would save customers in the north east and CA $500 m a year. It would raise prices for power in the south, Bush's political base.

Guess who lost that political equation?

Basically, CA (54) and the northeastern states NY (36), PA (23), CT (8), VT (3), NH (4), ME (4), RI (4), NJ (15), and MA (12) are being corralled into a solid anti-Republican block (total votes = 163 of the 270 needed to elect) by Republican hostility.

    

Critical flaws in shuttles loom as potential disaster (Orlando Sentinel)

An Orlando Sentinel review of NASA's hazard-evaluation studies and nearly 2,000 malfunction reports from the 113 shuttle flights found a half-dozen hardware systems -- all critical to successful launch, orbit and landing -- that have repeatedly faltered or failed during flight. In many instances, they have been treated and accepted in much the same fashion that NASA reacted to ongoing flaws that doomed Challenger and Columbia.