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...Christmas Eve the crew got busy. Settling Apollo 8 into orbit around the moon was a high-wire maneuver that involved turning the ship backward and firing its powerful service propulsion engine for precisely four and a half minutes - an eternity in a business in which barely a breath from a thruster is enough to set a ship spinning off course. The engine burn was designed to slow the spacecraft down just enough to ease it into a lunar orbit without losing so much altitude that it crashed into the moon instead. Orbital mechanics also demanded that the maneuver occur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Apollo 8, Man's First Trip to the Moon | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

...Blagojevich on Friday vowed that he would not resign or temporarily step aside, saying he owed it to the voters of the state to remain in office despite polls showing some 80% want him out. "I will fight, I will fight, I will fight until I take my last breath," Blagojevich said to a packed news conference in Chicago's Loop. It was the first formal statement Blagojevich had made since being charged last week with trying to auction off President-Elect Barack Obama's Senate seat, among other alleged offenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Blago's Defiance, Echoes of an Idol, Richard Nixon | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

...they, everyone in this fraud, are all wiped out. Even Stanley says he's lost everything. It's the kind of news that's been known to cause shortness of breath, sudden cardiac arrest, revolvers pulled from bedside drawers. It harks back to December of 1929 and the image of bodies falling from buildings. But what can you do? (See the top 10 scared stock traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Got Screwed by Bernie Madoff | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...grabs for her bottle of Gatorade as if she were an NFL cornerback returning to the bench after a 60-yard interception return. Halfway through the 2 1/2-hr. concert, she pulls out a chair and plops down into it for a couple of numbers. We catch our breath along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liza Minnelli Onstage: Resistance Is Futile | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...grappling, bare-chested Amazons, could now feel his wife’s breasts pressed against his back, while Roxanna’s languorous form quivered against his embrace. It felt oddly poetic: ensconced between these two women to whom he had given so much.Felicity was still panting, and her breath was hot in Frederick’s ear. “Take us now,” she whispered. “Both of us. Together.”Frederick felt a massive rush of arousal. This was it: his destiny. Felicity stood up, ripped off the rest...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

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