Commander Eileen Collins, center, and the crew of Discovery, appear before the press at Launch Pad 39B during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Discovery shuttle sits partially obscured on the pad.
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
(3/3/06)