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Byline: Bill Murphy
Jul. 10--Talk this week at the Michoud plant in New Orleans hasn't centered on the Saints' chances this football season or the city's invariably muggy summer weather.
Workers instead have been sounding out each other on whether they had heard about the test Monday that provided the "smoking gun" linking foam insulation applied at the plant to the shuttle Columbia's destruction.
Employees were not caught off guard by the test because of evidence released over the past several months. But given the test's compelling results -- foam fired out of a cannon blew a 16-inch hole in a shuttle wing -- workers' faint hopes vanished that something other than foam would turn out to be the cause.
"I had hoped it wasn't going to be foam. But there's nothing…