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...hopping the train didn't dawn on them until it began pulling away from the Hop-In Grocery and picking up speed. It was only then that a sweeping glance at one another affirmed a quorum for mischief. As they sprinted toward the train, Tester tripped, finally climbing aboard some 20 cars behind the group. Discouraged, he jumped off a few miles later while his friends, riding atop the boxcars, thundered ahead past the bend in Holly, ducking through tunnels and quivering as towns and pastures blurred past them. "We were scared," says Nicole. "We were laying on the train...
...that the French have gotten cold feet about sending one of their own to the ramshackle space station. The Russians are worried about more than their image problem: if the French pull out, they'll be taking the money they were going to pay the Russians to conduct experiments aboard Mir. For the moment, things have settled down in orbit. With Mir's solar panels once more pointed at the sun and its batteries recharging steadily, the crew has been given a day off. Anxiety-ridden Mir commander Vasily Tsibliyev reportedly took a few sedatives so that he could...
...Clinton meeting had had its Republican counterpart just two weeks earlier, when G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour pleaded his case aboard the yacht of Hong Kong tycoon Ambrous Tung Young. Barbour had offered Young a voice in shaping U.S.-China policy for the new think tank of the G.O.P.'s congressional majority. And by the way, Barbour added, the party needed a favor. Could Young forgive what remained of a $2.2 million loan that his overseas firm had guaranteed so the Republican Party could stop pouring money into the think tank and pour money into campaigns instead...
...touchdown was not without problems. Early pictures revealed that one of the airbags that cushioned the craft during its descent had bunched up in a way that hindered the rover from leaving the lander. In addition, the computer aboard Sojourner and the one aboard Pathfinder were having trouble communicating with each other, which prevented the rover from getting the information it needed to rove beyond the immediate vicinity of the lander. But these problems, which engineers promptly set about fixing, did little to dampen the excitement when Pathfinder sent back its stunning panoramas of the eerie orange site where...
...TIME, May 12). Congress, which controls NASA's funding--including the $472 million the agency pays Russia for flights to Mir and for other joint projects--was already questioning whether it was wise to fly such a derelict ship. With two more Americans still set to ride aboard Mir before this cycle of joint flights ends, in May 1998, many on Capitol Hill want to pull the plug on the missions. "The incident," says Indiana Representative Tim Roemer, "should prompt further debate over how much we are willing to sacrifice for manned space science." NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin doesn...