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...telegenic and symbolic sites to begin his next task: persuading the U.S. Senate to ratify the NATO treaty to include the new members. All the other national parliaments involved will have to ratify it too, but the Senate is the key. If it falters, some of the Europeans could drift away. And while the White House expects to win the two-thirds vote it needs in the Senate, it no longer believes rounding up 67 votes will be a simple matter...
...thrown into a sickening spin. At week's end Tsibliyev, fellow cosmonaut Alexander Lazutkin and astronaut Mike Foale were reduced to pitching camp in the dimly lighted areas of the station that still work, as failing systems caused heat and humidity to soar and Mir itself to list and drift. "It's as critical as it can get," said astronaut Jerry Linenger, who recently completed a four-month hitch...
Because of strong family ties in Shenyang, most of the jobless have not joined the floating population of migrants, now at least 100 million strong, who drift around China searching for work. So the city has permitted a handful of carefully controlled labor markets to help employ a few thousand of the laid off. At a grubby park in Tiexi, the city lets job seekers "advertise" their skills for a few cents. At a stranger's approach, they point eagerly at hand-lettered signs identifying them as would-be cooks, maids, nannies, hotel clerks, laborers. But at least half...
...Lower Keys on your hands and knees" was our old advertising slogan--a tragic admission that outside of watching the sun sink behind the mangrove islands and the ospreys drift lazily across the azure sky, there wasn't a whole lot to do down here except drink until you heave. But now, in recognition of the fact that red-blooded spring breakers need a more stand-up form of entertainment, the U.S. military plans to start test-launching ballistic missiles from our fabled ecosystem. On your next vacation visit, you'll be able to watch 12-ton Hera rockets blast...
Today's commencement reminds me of how, when I was a kid, we used to play softball in a vacant lot behind our grade school. The worst moment in the whole summer was the last day of vacation as the sun began to set. Slowly but surely people would drift away, leaving the rest crying: "Stick around, guys! One more inning, one more time at bat! We can't break up this team!" We wanted it to stay light forever, so we could keep playing forever. But the sun always went down...