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...Baikonur A Russian cargo vessel launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan docked with the beleaguered Mir, as part of an elaborate plan to destroy the 15-year-old space station. The successful docking of the unmanned Progress M1-5 ship, which is carrying twice its normal fuel cargo, was slightly behind schedule?however, Russian officials still anticipate that Mir will be destroyed, as expected, in early March. If all goes according to plan, the cargo ship will help lower the space station?s altitude, causing it to burn up in the earth?s atmosphere in what Moscow insists will...
...problem is the mistakes themselves. Soros thinks that our history, especially economic history, is sculpted by blunders. It's a radical proposition, as if you suggested that Botticelli's best art was the result of paint splatters. But Soros is insistent: mistakes make history. They also make--and destroy--fortunes...
Stanford, who had joined the transition team, was among advisers and friends cautioning Derwin against notifying jail employees that he planned to fire them, fearful they would destroy files or sabotage databases. "There's nothing they can do we can't fix," Derwin told him. His wife says he anguished over the firings, coming to her one night in early December to ask whether she thought people would rather know right away or wait until after the holidays to discover they were getting axed. "Derwin was not the bad guy. He was not firing people just to fire people," Phyllis...
...investigation say someone accepted delivery of the fertilizer, though it's not clear exactly when. What happened after that remains a mystery. Malaysian police concede the ammonium nitrate disappeared but are also adamant it left the country. The haul totals four times the amount of ammonium nitrate used to destroy the federal office building in Oklahoma City, one foreign analyst points out. With such a huge stash of bomb-making material unaccounted for and hundreds of KMM members still at large, Yazid will be facing some pointed questions from his Malaysian interrogators...
...major premise of marginalia is that life is infinitely adjustable. As soon as a work comes under someone else's scrutiny, up rises the impulse to correct, enlarge, destroy...