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...constructed by Gorlin and Mirvish (the book’s true authors), Eisenstadt is the pundit par excellence—a Washington operative with an inflated sense of self-importance, a political skill set inversely proportional to ego, and a grab bag of talking points in the form of arguments by assertion. His knowledge of international affairs is sketchy, but he is quite sure of America’s historical preeminence within them. His achievements are few, but his sense of self-importance is vast. He is obsessed with image and public perception—the kind...
...place of that program, NASA will tackle a grab bag of other projects: extending the life of the so-far unfinished International Space Station (ISS) until 2020, and spending $4.9 billion to develop better robotics, $7.8 billion to develop new flight techniques such as in-orbit fuel depots and closed-loop life-support systems, and $3 billion to develop new unmanned ships. There are no entirely unworthy objectives in that list (with the possible exception of the ISS), but there's also no clear way of getting humans back into space after 2010, once the shuttles are mothballed. What...
...home. But in the 1960s, with the country rapidly industrializing, people migrated from the farms to the factories, and food stalls sprang up to feed them. Their customers were once pitied or scorned. Women who bought takeaway instead of cooking for their families were called "plastic-bag housewives." (See the 12 tastiest new foods...
...focus now is finishing the season with an Ivy championship,” Robinson echoed. “We have dominated in all our other meets, so I think the rest of our season is in the bag...
...main part of the house and put her to work, though she didn't specify how. "I was used like his work animal," she says. Obsessive about cleanliness, he punished her when she left fingerprints in the house. He also forced her to cover her hair with a plastic bag and then just shaved off her hair altogether. Kampusch then started to go on short trips around town with him but says she never dared to escape. One day, when they were driving to the store, Kampusch says they were stopped at a routine police checkpoint. She says she tried...