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• 7. HOW LONDON HEALTH OFFICIALS FIND TB PATIENTS
• A van equipped with an X-ray machine drives around London, the tuberculosis capital of Western Europe, offering free checkups.
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• 8. WHY YOUR NEXT CAR WILL PROBABLY BE WHITE
• The variety of flat shades to creamy pearls is helping to make it the world's favorite automotive color.
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• 9. WHAT COULD BE NEXT FOR SPACE TOURISM
• An Arizona-based company announces plans to send people up 19 miles in a capsule, lifted by a high-altitude balloon.
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• 10. MEET 'THE SALTINE,' 'THE CANUCK,' 'THE WOLF'
• The beards of the Boston Red Sox have taken on lives -- and names -- of their own.
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AP News in Brief
Nuclear missile officers twice caught napping with blast door left open to underground bunker
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Air Force officers entrusted with the launch keys to long-range nuclear missiles have been caught twice this year leaving open a blast door that is intended to help prevent a terrorist or other intruder from entering their underground command post, Air Force officials said.
• The blast doors are never to be left open if one of the crew members inside is asleep -- as was the case in both these instances -- out of concern for the trouble an intruder could cause, including the compromising of secret launch codes.
• Transgressions such as this are rarely revealed publicly. But officials with direct knowledge of Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile operations told The Associated Press that such violations have occurred, undetected, more times than in the cases of the two launch crew commanders and two deputy commanders who were given administrative punishments this year.
• The blast door violations are another sign of trouble in the handling of the nation's nuclear arsenal. The AP has discovered a series of problems within the ICBM force, including a failed safety inspection, the temporary sidelining of launch officers deemed unfit for duty and the abrupt firing last week of the two-star general in (Continued on page 27)
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