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Show World&Mation Page 14 Doctor says NASA wrong to deride reports of drinking urban legends, rather than acknowledging how difficult raising such concerns can be, do not encourage openness and safety, make future reporting even less likely, and increase the risk of future mishaps or incidents," Bachmann told the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics in Washington. NASA's inability to find even a single case of astronaut drunkenness on launch day doesn't prove it didn't happen, said Bachmann, commander of the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine. Rather, it shows only that the NASA employees who told his panel about the incidents did not bring them up during NASA's internal review, he said. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - An Air Force doctor who headed a controversial astronaut health study told Congress on Thursday that NASA is discouraging open communications by rebutting reports of drunken astronauts on launch day and deriding the claims as urban legends. Last week, NASA released the results of its own internal investigation, saying it had found no evidence or even hints of astronaut intoxication before launch, contrary to what the Bachmann committee had reported a month earlier. While defending his report, Bachmann said he understands NASA's outrage over his medical panel's citing of at least two instances of launch-day intoxication. Even though fellow astronauts or flight surgeons notified their bosses about the crew members' drunken state, they were ignored, Bachmann's committee was told confidentially. "We believe this may represent continued fear and barriers to communication and may be a cause for greater, not less concern." he said. Both the Challenger and Columbia disasters were blamed, in part, on miscommunication and broken safety cultures within the space agency. The independent but NASA-appointed health review committee heard from "Public statements that such things are simply impossible, challenging the veracity of the findings, referring to them as unproven allegations or astronauts and flight surgeons earlier this year who were "eyewitnesses to the events" and freely volunteered the information regarding astronaut intoxication, Bachmann said. No names or dates were included in the panel's final report in late July. The astronaut health review committee identified a number of cultural issues within NASA that "make it even more difficult to predict an episode of disordered conduct," Bachmann testified. NASA's boss, Michael Griffin, went so far last week as to call the claims of prelaunch astronaut drunkenness an urban legend, likening it to alarming but false reports of deliberately poisoned Halloween candy. On Thursday, Griffin said he recognizes that the Nowak case, a murder-suicide at Johnson Space Center in Houston last spring and the allegations of alcohol abuse by astronauts has shaken public confidence in NASA. The space agency is implementing many of the health panel's recommendations to improve medical and behavioral health care for astronauts. Friday, Sept. 7, 2007\ NationalBrietS Osama Bin Laden to address U.S CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden plans a new video addressing the American people regarding the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, terror monitoring groups said Thursday. SITE Intelligence Group said an Internet announcement of the plan included a photo of the alQaida leader from the upcoming video - his beard, which in previous messages had been streaked with gray, was entirely dark. Intelcenter, which is based in Alexandria, Va.F and also monitors Islamic Web sites, said the video was expected within the next 72 hours, or by Sunday. That would come before the sixth anniversary next Tuesday of the World Trade Center attack. The last bin Laden video was in October 2004, shortly before the U.S. presidential elections. Rita Katz, director of the Washington-based SITE Institute, said bin Laden's beard appeared to have been dyed, which she said is a popular practice in the Middle East. "I think it works for their benefit that he looks young, he looks healthy," Katz said of the new image. Research affirms large sea ice loss ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - An analysis of 20 years' worth of real-life observations supports recent U.N. computer predictions that by 2050, summer sea ice off Alaska's north coast will probably shrink to nearly half the area it covered in the 1980s, federal scientists say. Such a loss could have profound effects on mammals dependent on the sea ice, such as polar bears, now being considered for threatened species status because of changes in habitat due to global warming. 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