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Russia's aging nuclear-powered submarine fleet has long been an accident waiting to happen. Over the past decade, Moscow's dwindling finances have forced it to scrap some two thirds of its nuclear submarine fleet; up to 100 obsolete, rusting vessels with nuclear reactors and fuel still aboard are scattered along the Kola Peninsula coastline, simply because Russia can't afford the cost of decommissioning them. But nobody would have expected the accident, when it came, to strike the Kursk, a spanking new Oscar II-class nuclear sub that only went into service...
...refusing to sully its schedule with the likes of the hokey Survivor and the intelligence-challenged Millionaire and the relentlessly odious Big Brother. Instead, Sassa and NBC entertainment president Garth Ancier have been hearing ominous rumors that their bosses are unhappy that the entertainment division has failed to clamber aboard the careering reality express...
...British Airways says its Concordes gave the company prestige, shuttling the swells on their surprisingly cramped, 1,336-mph passage at $10,000 a head. A trip aboard one must have been like joining an exclusive but rather cramped and uncomfortable club. But part of its charm - to the small number of people who flew it - was that it was superior to the other planes, safer. For the price of a ticket, you were buying a guarantee...
...possible no one aboard Zvezda will be sleeping much anyway, since the ship was built with so little noise muffling that the crew has to wear earplugs to shut out the din of onboard equipment. Then there's the temporary lack of shielding to protect the module from a rogue meteor hit--a potential calamity that could keep any astronaut awake at night...
...sail, critics say. Its cost is at least eight times the initial estimates, and the hardware is nearly a decade behind schedule. And after the ISS is built, there may be nothing for it to do. Many of the medical studies NASA hopes to conduct have been performed aboard Russia's Mir space station; other work on materials manufacturing could be performed by unmanned ships...