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Your Gift Certificate Connection...Stop by or call our Customer Service Booth 764-0777 Texas 6 Bypass at Highway 30, College Station Developed. Owned and Managed by CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES. INC. (NYSEOBL) Page 6 • Friday, December 4, 1998 N ation Alarm postpones shuttle lauf Problem with pressure unit delays delivery of space station co, The Battali CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A loud, flashing alarm went off in the cockpit of space shuttle En deavour with just 4 and a half min utes to go in the countdown Thurs day, forcing the postponement of NASA’s first space station con struction flight. NASA said it would try again early Friday, though the weather outlook was unfavorable. The master alarm blared and red lights flashed just before the shuttle was to lift off around 4 a.m. Thurs day. By the time controllers traced the problem to a momentary drop in hydraulic pressure and decided to press ahead, it was too late. “Sure, it’s frustrating,” Bill Readdy, shuttle program director and a veteran shuttle commander, said. “But we do things right. We do things by the book, and we’re not going to cut any corners even if it means just shaving a second or two.” The six astronauts crawled out of the shuttle, and two threw up their hands. Commander Robert Cabana held up his thumb and in- “We’re not gping to cut any corners even if it means just shaving a second or two.” — Bill Readdy Shuttle program director dex finger a half-inch apart: "We were that close.” NASA has only five minutes or less each day to launch Endeav our in order to meet up with the first space station part, which was put in orbit two weeks ago by the Russians. The problem wasccj one of Endeavour's[ pressure units. 1 dropped just longenoiiglj the alarm, then returned|| NASA engineers weree the problem but wereo would not reoccur. Endeavour’s flighty year late because of ac j in Russia, one of NASA: in building the interim station. The one-day i NASA about $600,oi-j fuel and overtime pay. Aboard Endeavouri ond station compoie American-made connerl sageway named Unity.!:] nauts will use thei arm to capture theRurj and attach it to Unity, spacewalkers will hool electrical connections! between the two cylii| attach handrailsandtot ture crews. HIM Philip Morris makes plans for anti-smoking campaign FAA releaf' terback against Texas 747 wanii NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Morris, the nation’s biggest tobac co company, plans to spend $100 million not to lure potential cus tomers, but to drive them away. The campaign target is kids, and the creator of the Marlboro Man says it plans to convince them that smoking is not cool. But critics say Philip Morris is only trying to buff its image and that a surer way to discourage youngsters from smoking would be if it dumped the macho cowboy as the icon for its biggest brand. The Philip Morris campaign kicks off Monday with ads that get the tobacco maker’s name in tele vision ads for the first time since cigarette advertising on broadcast outlets was banned in 1971. The ads, bearing the slogan “Think. Don’t Smoke,” are aimed at youngsters between 10 and 14 years old and will appear Monday on networks like ABC, Fox, WB, TNT and The Cartoon Channel. Merlo said NBC had refused to take the ads but did not know the reason. A call to NBC was not im mediately returned. CBS said it was reviewing the ads. The unusual campaign comes as the industry remains under at tack in court and may face re newed efforts in Congress to reg ulate tobacco as a drug. Big Tobacco recently agreed to pay $206 billion to settle claims by 46 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories for reim bursement for the health costs of treating tobacco-related illnesses. The settlement payment in cluded $1.7 billion to study why children smoke and to finance programs aimed at discouraging them from starting. 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