"That was a great (spacewalk) and it showed that Aggies can be taught to work locks, latches and anything else. Miracles never cease."

"That was a great (spacewalk) and it showed that Aggies can be taught to work locks, latches and anything else. Miracles never cease."
NASA flight controllers
In their daily electronic message to the shuttle Discovery's crew, referring to astronaut Mike Fossum, a graduate of Texas A & amp;M.
"The areas that the Taliban is operating in are areas that the government of Afghanistan has not heretofore had the strength and had the presence."
U.S. Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry
On how the rise of Taliban resistance in southern Afghanistan reflects the weakness of the government more than a strengthening of the fundamentalist movement.