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...capital of cabin fever was the capital. Monday was the day the government was to reopen. But when the day arrived, the only open shop was the Supreme Court, with Justice David Souter catching a lift to work after failing to dig his Volkswagen Rabbit out of a drift. John Sturdivant, head of the American Federation of Government Employees, speculated, "It's kind of God's revenge on the craziness of Washington...
...Clearly there has been an enormous interest in extra hours, and I sort of picked up on the drift over the fall that people were very much wanting to have one of the Yard libraries open for some weekend hours that we hadn't been open previously," Cole said. Currently, Hilles is open until midnight on Saturday...
...Galileo goes into orbit, a probe that it will have released 147 days earlier will plunge into the upper Jovian atmosphere at 106,000 m.p.h., its heat shield glowing. Two minutes later, after friction has slowed its descent, the probe will deploy a parachute at around 400 m.p.h. and drift downward, sniffing at gases, measuring temperatures and pressures, observing cloud structures and lightning and transmitting data back to its mother ship. Finally, about an hour into its descent, the probe will be vaporized by the steadily increasing temperatures it encounters below the dense clouds. Its fate, says a NASA official...
...wake of the Game weekend, our minds drift to the past, and then are abruptly returned to the here-and-the-now by the putting of noses back to the "grindstone." Perhaps a course on Harvard history would allow those students who were so inclined to "drift" back on a more regular basis, to walk down the ancient paths of Harvard and remember who stepped there before. Then, more than ever, would we be worthy of the name on our diplomas...
NEWT GINGRICH Now he blames liberals for killing pregnant women. What next? Continental drift...