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®ag<:i Thursday, July 1, 2004 THE BATTACHE I Catfwlic St. Mary’s Catholic Center 603 Church Avenue in Northgate (979)846-5717 www.aaaiecatholic.org Student Summer Fellowship Every Tuesday at 7:30 PM Daily Masses Mon.-Fri.: 5:30 p.m. in the Church Weekend Masses Sat: 2:00 p.m. (Korean), 5:30 p.m. (English), 7:00 p.m. (Spanish) Sun.: 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 7:00 p.m. Confessions Wed. 8:30-9:30 p.m., Sat. 4:00-5:15 p.m. or by appointment.. €furi&tian First Christian Church 900 South Ennis, Bryan 823-5451 Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:45 a.m. Robert D. Chandler, Minister lEpi&cajpal St. Thomas Episcopal 906 George Bush Dr. • College Station, IX 696-1726 Summer services - 8.00 and 10:00 a.m. Next door to Canterbury House, the Episopal Student Center 'Nm-'Daumimitmud Feeling a BtOe overwhelmed? God can haip! We are a small church that teaches God's Word verse by verse, and places a high value on worship. CASUAL ATMOSPHERE Come join us! Currently meeting at: Putt-Putt Golf 4 Gomes 1705 Valley View Dr.. C.S. Just across Texas Ave. tram the C.S. Police Station Services at 10.30 am Sunday Pastor Jeff Hughes ‘95 (979)324-3972 www.aggieland.ee Court allows e-mail interception, raising privacy questions ‘Wrestless’ in ColoradoWh Contii biothei ‘Pi e&kifteriai i V, Covenant Presbyterian Church 220 Rock Prairie Road (979) 694-7700 Students Welcome Sunday Service: 9:30 a.m. Sunday School: 10:30 a.m. www.covenantpresbyterian.org By Marcia Dunn ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — In an online eavesdropping case with poten tially profound implications, a federal appeals court ruled it was acceptable for a company that offered e-mail service to surreptitiously track its sub scribers’ messages. A now-defunct online liter ary clearinghouse, Interloc Inc., made copies of the e- mails in 1998 so it could peruse messages sent to its subscribers by rival Amazon.com Inc. An Interloc executive was subse quently indicted on an illegal wiretapping charge. An advocacy group said Tuesday’s ruling by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opens the door to further inter pretations of the federal Wiretap Act that could erode personal privacy rights. “It puts all of our electron ic communications in jeop ardy — voice mail, e-mail, you name it,” said Jerry Berman, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology. “I think it vio lates the letter and spirit of the statute.” Another group, the Elect ronic Frontier Foundation, said in a statement that the court “dealt a grave blow to the priva cy of Internet communications.” In a 2-1 decision, the Boston-based appeals court upheld a federal judge’s, dis missal last year of a wiretap ping charge against a former Interloc vice president, Bran ford C. Councilman. According to his 2001 indictment, Councilman directed employees to write computer code to intercept and copy all incoming e-mails from Amazon.com to Interloc’s subscribers, who were dealers seeking buyers for rare and out-of-print books. Amazon.com did not then offer used books, but offered customers help in tracking down rare books. The government alleged that Interloc tried to exploit the Amazon e-mails “to develop a list of books, learn about com petitors and attain a commer cial advantage.” But Councilman argued that no violation of the Wiretap Act had occurred because the e- mails were copied while in “electronic storage” — the messages were in the process of being routed through a net work of servers to recipients. The wiretapping law broadly protects eavesdropping on mes sages that are not stored — such as an unrecorded phone conversation — but does not afford the same legal protec- tionstions to stored messages. |sing - ur m Tela O'Donnell pauses while playing her guitar in her dorm roomc Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Mix O'Donnell, a native of Homer, Alaska, is heading to Athens this wnW compete with the USA women's wrestling team. yell lead Holnt ith his ii volved lit of Tc an ass am are “1 ha\ those Holm Two astronauts succeed with repair By Marcia Dunn ASSOCIATED PRESS Path of Russian Gennady Padalka American Mike Fincke CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The inter national space station’s two astronauts hus tled through an unusually risky spacewalk and successfully replaced a bad circuit breaker Wednesday — a sweet victory following last week’s failed attempt. Shouts of “hurray!” and “great!” emanated from space after American Mike Fincke and Russian Gennady Padalka learned their effort had paid off. “Great job, you guys,” Mission Control radioed. “We’re glad to be able to be of service,” Fincke said. It was a long and potentially dangerous haul to the work site — and back to the hatch after the repairs were made. Fincke and Padalka had to cross nearly 100 feet to get to the fried circuit breaker — a gruel ing distance for spacewalkers over difficult terrain. Then they managed to pry off the cover for the row of circuit breakers; it was stiff and incredibly hard to move. The two were ahead of schedule the entire time, and flight controllers kept urg- Last Thursday, they barely made it out the hatch when their spacewalk was aborted, just 14 minutes after it began. An oxygen- flow switch on Fincke’s suit did not lock into the proper position and oxygen gushed out of his tank, prompting flight controllers to order the spacewalkers back inside. fortable i ith leat “Bein surprises Holm ’Kno' Astronauts try spacewalk a second time After a failed attempt last week, one American and one Russian astronaut will use the same plan and Russian suits Wednesday to scale the outside of the International Space Station and repair a faulty circuit breaker. Exit and entry at Russian docking compartment Astronauts follow a 50-foot crane under the direction of Russian control center, then scale the station the remainder of the way with the aid of U.S. mission control. U.S. and Russian astronauts part ways to repair a circuit breaker. SOURCE: NASA Dan DeLorenzo, Nicolas Rapp • AP be up and running within a day. The spacewalk was considered lislBsponsil than most. I Holm The space station is down to just twoe e\joy ev members, instead of three, because oh grounding of the shuttle fleet since! Columbia disaster. As a result, noonewasll inside to watch over event during the spacewalk—a sin NASA never tolerated y year. The men also used suits not intended forthislypl hand-intensive, U.S. repair™ A cooling failure in the space'] lion's American spacesuitj month ago forced the the st i ffe r, mo re-pressor: Russian suits. After floating through Russian hatch Wednesday half-hour early — Fincke Padalka cranked open extendible boom to traversethej tion, and made it to the worksite the way over on the U.S. sicbj out incident about 1 l/2hoursli| Within minutes, they renfj the old circuit breaker —ai gular box about the sizeofaej tionary — and pushed in I do it aga Jeff B ader h< clients ar ricultui ailey nc San Ai Bailey rprised “I mi: ere,” B; Bailey id hell “We fi improve! Bailey “It ha |ailey $a Coxsi celebr |tention “It isr tions of J ing them to take their time and be careful. The warnings came more frequently as the men made their way back from the work site. Less than six hours after venturing out, the men were safely back inside. NASA was anxious to replace the circuit breaker to restore power to one of the gyro scopes that keep the 225-mile-high outpost steady and pointed in the right direction. The circuit breaker conked out in April, leaving the space station with just two good gyroscopes, the bare minimum. With a new breaker in, the idled gyroscope checked out fine Wednesday night and was expected to Flight controllers immediately ranaseriti electrical tests and confirmed that the s»j was good. Using the Russian suits meant am from the Russian hatch — 80 feet to feet from the broken circuit breaker- an excursion over treacherous tern including antennas and jagged edges could tear a spacesuit. 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