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Traveling at a breakneck 54,000 m.p.h.--four times its cruising speed--the ship was no longer flying toward the planet but falling toward it, on a high-speed trajectory that could send it skimming past Saturn and back out into space. If the ship was going to enter a stable orbit, it would have to fire its little braking rocket for 96 min., until it reached the right speed and position to dart upward through a gap in Saturn's rings and begin circling the giant world. But when it comes to the dense rivers of ice and rubble...
Soldiers, whose contracts are for eight years, are typically on active duty for three to four years; then they can join the Ready Reserve or else automatically enter the 111,000-member IRR for the remainder of their obligation. Unlike members of the Ready Reserve, those in the IRR do not participate in any further military training and thus do not get paid. Since 9/11, the Army has mobilized 2,500 troops from the IRR; 1,100 went voluntarily, and the rest were directed to go. The last sizable activation of the IRR was a call...
...sides did not enter their heat on equal footing. Unlike Harvard, Cambridge’s rowers are drawn from the larger university, and not just the college. As a result, former Crimson members donned Cambridge colors and rowed against their alma mater...
Amidst the team rivalries and the constitutional quarrels, Europe’s nations are connecting and working together. And as more and more countries enter the EU—and get better at football—Europeans are more conscious and conscientious of their neighboring countries than ever before. With the continent’s dedication to cooperation, there’s little patience for those who chose to play by their own rules. As the resident of a country whose name has become synonymous with unilateralism, my citizenship has become somewhat of a social liability...
...lovely. Such an insouciant and enticing neologism, so perfectly emblematic of Cole Porter, the man who coined it. You enter a movie with that title, prepared to be enchanted. You straggle out a couple of hours later, lost in a fog of gloom. For this film's makers grimly insist that the songwriter's life was essentially a betrayal of his impeccably sophisticated art when they might have more profitably seen his work as a gallant triumph over the difficulties of a messy life...