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There’s an amazing story about survival from the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia.  Just a few months after Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry, searchers recovered pages from Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon’s diary.  They had survived a 37-mile fall to earth through extreme heat and cold, and were recovered from a field just outside Palestine, Texas.
That was in the spring of 2003.  Now five years later, part of the restored diary will be on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
The entire story is at http://hosted.ap.org