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Shirlee T. Haizlip outlined her book The Sweeter the Juice,which describes her lifelong endeavor to reunite the Black and white sides of her family...
Keeping the Broadway Market in perfect working condition has been an exhausting, time-consuming endeavor, Ring says, but the owners have been rewarded...
...longest flight in space shuttle history just got longer. With Florida socked in by stormy weather, Endeavor was unable to touch down at the Kennedy Space Center today. NASA is mulling a Saturday landing either at Kennedy or at Edwards Air Force Base in California. As of Saturday, Endeavor will have been in orbit for 16 1/2 days, surpassing the 14-day, 18-hour flight by Columbia last year. While weather at Kennedy is expected to improve only slightly by tomorrow, nearly perfect conditions are forecast for the Mojave Desert landing strip. NASA prefers Kennedy because it costs $1 million...
Spack explains that the word boredom did not exist until the mid-18th century; thus, far from being the universal condition that we tend to assume, it is a fairly recent social construction. The popular idea (voiced by Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, and others) that "all endeavor of every kind takes place in the context of boredom impending or boredom repudiated" presents boredom as a universal like fear or desire; its linguistic history, documented by Spacks, suggests otherwise. Boredom, then, appears as "an explanatory myth of our culture" whose linguistic appearance in the 18th century was linked to an increase...
Thagard chatted in orbit with space shuttle Endeavor commander Stephen Oswald in the first radio link between astronauts on Russian and American spaceships. Endeavor is set to land in Florida tomorrow after a record-setting 15 1/2-day orbit...