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...that fired the imagination of the American public is shivering in sub-zero Martian temperatures, cut off from home, unable to send home pictures or receive the orders programmers are sending it to hit its restart button. The plucky Sojourner rover is left to run aimless circles round the craft ? and now NASA is about to give up on both of them...
...natural movements with the simplicity and steadiness of her own voice. Even while delivering what must have been vocally straining performances, she managed to maintain an ease and comfort in her demeanor that, from the beginning of her career, completely set her apart from singers less mature in their craft...
...because organic matter alone does not provide enough evidence of life, Thomas B. McCord, planetary scientist and co-investigator on the Galileo space-craft instrument team, is researching Europa to learn more about the moon...
...stealth phase, for instance, that she recruited political consultant Dick Morris to craft the move-to-the-center strategy that kept Bill Clinton in the White House. She and Morris were the earliest to press the President into adopting the consultant's campaign of bite-sized, family-oriented initiatives. And after the election, she was one of the most important forces behind the first major decision of his second term: to balance the budget. She did not stay out of personnel decisions either. She backed Erskine Bowles as chief of staff, putting pragmatism over friendship by passing over her ally...
...Lynnfield Pioneers approach their craft with a less-skill-is-more attitude. None of the members stands out as a particularly gifted musician. The songs are simple: no odd meters or complex chord changes. Only the drummer, the most talented musician in the group, tries to play anything at all complex. But his hubris is evident as he foils many fills and distracts the listener from the flow of the music. Even without much skill, he and the rest of the band play with an in-your-face aggressiveness that overshadows their lack of technical prowess. Although balanced...