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...Penn forwards broke awaydownfield again, but, at the brink of disaster,goalie Cowan squelched the drive with one of hermiraculous saves...
...JANEIRO: Congratulate the Brazilian people for their farsightedness: The current global contagion that has pushed Brazil's government to the brink of disaster has visited equal hardship on its people, yet the nation is poised to reelect President Fernando Enrique Cardoso with the full knowledge that he has even deeper hardship in store. Rarely have the IMF and its usual victims -- ordinary citizens -- been in such agreement...
...common--essentially zero-gravity milk runs to ferry cargo up and down. But this very monotony has given Aldrin and others an idea. Now that visiting space is so routine, why shouldn't anyone--even a vacationer--be able to book a seat? Says Aldrin: "We're on the brink of at last democratizing space...
Most likely, the answer is pragmatism. Politicians are busy people and often not available to attend Harvard's June Commencement. Further, political figures are often tied to specific moments. Washington, for example, received his degree on the brink of the Revolutionary...
...building in Atlanta, have been hurling down one "important" story after another--all in the name of calling our bluff about our desire to focus on what "really matters." In the span of about a month, they gave us: a new war on terrorism, Russia on the brink, a shaky stock market and even a historic race to topple our national pastime's most storied record...