Word: brauns
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...International Space Station come about? The first practical space station plans date back half a century to the German rocket scientist Werner von Braun, who was brought to the United States after World War II and would ignite America's part in the space race. After developing the rockets that took astronauts to the moon, he turned his attention to the idea of a permanently manned space station. He planned for orbiting wheels that would slowly spin to provide the kind of artificial gravity that would allow hundreds of people to work in an Earth-like environment. But the cost...
...editor Anna Wintour's decision to wear fur in defiance of animal-rights protesters constitutes a courageous political act, Aucoin's recent assertion that he would never ply his brushes on the face of a right-wing Republican because it would be like "a Jew doing makeup for Eva Braun" marks him as something of an anomaly. Over the past decade, he has worked on more magazine covers than anyone else in his field. On Oscar night, his ministrations are coveted by Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman. Yet he has proved himself as likely to make pronouncements on government policy...
Like all passionate collectors, pinheads are obsessed. And, they say, misunderstood. Leonard Braun, 65, wears a Barcelona T-shirt and an exoskeleton of pins, including a badge of honor that reads "Pinologist." His wife reckons he's juvenile. "She doesn't understand it, and that's a fundamental problem," says the retired physicist from Los Angeles. "But it's probably better than collecting race cars or women." Still, the absurdity of his passion hasn't escaped him: "At times I've had an out-of-body experience: I've seen this grown man trading pins on the ground like...
Elian deserves An asylum hearing. That's What we're fighting for. --Linda Osberg-Braun, attorney for the Miami relatives
...visa, lawyers representing the Florida family have been engaging in some tricky footwork. Last Friday, Miami family attorneys Manny Diaz and Kendall Coffey insisted, separately, that the father would not be given custody of Elian, and would be allowed only supervised visits with his son. Although attorneys Linda Osberg-Braun and Spencer Eig later modified this position - saying, respectively, that the family hadn?t yet decided on the custody issue, and that they wouldn?t stand in the way of the INS if the agency came to collect the boy - lawyers and political supporters for the Miami family attempted...