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...life in a planned crash, scheduled for Thursday or Friday of this week. The 143-ton ship will re-enter the atmosphere in a flaming arc over the South Pacific, hitting the ocean as a sizzling pile of slag somewhere between Chile and Australia. But even as this final dive approaches, Mir's biographers are working hard to catalog the station's achievements: the 16,500 experiments conducted in its labs; the 600 industrial technologies it helped create; the 104 crew members who called the ship home, one for a record 438 consecutive days...
...Giving up on Home, the group heads over to Cage - a karaoke dive for those in-the-know. Downstairs is a noisy bar replete with TV monitors and bubblegum Kelly Chan tunes. Fai sits down, surrounded by guys. Beers and shots come and go. The expert hunter offers a few pointers for approaching women. "The first thing to do is to look like you're having a great time with your friends. So the ladies know you're there for fun. Then you look for eye contact. And if all of that fails, you can always pretend you're really...
...Duke is one of best hustling teams in nation and undoubtedly leads the country in floor burns. If you watched this past weekend's ACC Tournament, hardly a minute would pass before you'd see Battier, point guard Jason Williams or another teammate dive on the court to get a loose ball...
...While Turkey's breathtaking economic dive was not seen as particularly surprising in Brussels, the crisis highlights the importance of Europe's reform demands. Says Eberhard Rhein, senior adviser at the European Policy Centre in Brussels: "It clearly demonstrates that Turkey has to privatize the banks, urgently." Last week's events, he feels, amount to a "cleansing storm" on the political front that could have salutory economic effects...
This singer-guitarist writes songs that have the lost, lonely feeling of the last drunk left in a dive bar at closing time. White is a country singer, but not necessarily from any country on this planet: several of the songs on this album were produced by members of the trip-hop band Morcheeba, and drawing from that group's spirit, the tracks beep and buzz and whir like UFOs zipping across a prairie sky. There are a couple of meandering stretches where the disparate elements don't quite come together, but any CD that features titles like Handcuffed...