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In a paper published online in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters , scientists Jozsef Garai and Stephen Haggerty of Florida International University , along with Case Western Reserve University researchers Sandeep Rekhi and Mark Chance , claim an extraterrestrial origin for the unique black diamonds , also called carbonado diamonds . State officials from the Philippines and Guatemala have been touring lethal chambers in the United States as part of their research into improved methods , and according to Amnesty International a Filipino official was allowed to watch a killing in Texas in 1997 . Meanwhile , chief astronaut Steve Lindsey is about to take off from Kennedy Space Center aboard the Shuttle Training Aircraft for weather reconnaissance flights around the area . Commander Ken Mattingly and pilot Henry Hartsfield spent a week in space examining orbiter systems and running science experiments . If this is true for Bush it has n't yet become obvious ; his Texas chief of staff , Clay Johnson , told Gail Sheehy that the attention span of his boss is , not to euphemize matters overmuch , somewhere in the vicinity of fifteen minutes . Space shuttle Atlantis and a multinational crew flew to the Russian space station Mir in June 1995 for the first in a series of joint docking missions , launching a new era of cooperation in space between the United States and Russia that would pave the way for the International Space Station . The late Stephen J. Gould is considered by most people to be one of the top evolution area theorists and popular writers of evolution to live in the past century . General Appropriations Act and employees of the United States government paying the hotel are no longer exempt from hotel tax . Indeed , according to Scott Horton , chair of the International Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association , when Yugoslavia sought to immunize senior government officials , the United States declared the act itself to be evidence of such a conspiracy . A number of countries around the world have enacted universal jurisdiction statutes ; even the United States allows it for certain terrorist offenses and torture . Astronaut Dom Gorie is now airborne at Edwards Air Force Base to evaluate the turbulence and crosswinds in a Shuttle Training Aircraft .