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...Baikonur A Russian cargo vessel launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan docked with the beleaguered Mir, as part of an elaborate plan to destroy the 15-year-old space station. The successful docking of the unmanned Progress M1-5 ship, which is carrying twice its normal fuel cargo, was slightly behind schedule?however, Russian officials still anticipate that Mir will be destroyed, as expected, in early March. If all goes according to plan, the cargo ship will help lower the space station?s altitude, causing it to burn up in the earth?s atmosphere in what Moscow insists will...
...does meet his European counterparts, they will have plenty to talk about. Take Iraq: support for sanctions against Baghdad has collapsed in Europe; but the Bush team is full of Desert Stormers with scores to settle. Last week?s reports that Saddam Hussein has revived his weapons program provides fuel for the fire of Administration hard-liners, who are determined to turn up the heat on Saddam and quash any effort by allies to end Baghdad?s isolation...
...Britney effect is helping fuel a resurgence of school dress codes across the country. In Chicago, where 80% of the public schools have uniforms, Assistant Principal Anastasia Halicki patrols the halls of Stephen F. Gale Elementary School to ensure that skirts don't rise higher than two finger widths above the knee. The majority of girls, of course, know better than to wear their most risque clothes to school. Tube tops are forbidden at Oliver McCracken Middle School in Skokie, Ill., but Sarah Roberts, 11, wears hip huggers and skimpy T shirts on the weekend. Even in the dead...
Natural-gas prices have spiked, oil is not necessarily cheaper, and if you live in Northern California, you are learning that electricity can't be taken for granted. About 53% of home-heating systems in the U.S. use natural gas, which in past years has been the least expensive fuel. Gas also burns cleaner, and the furnaces are simpler to monitor than oil furnaces. Yet because parts of the U.S. (especially the Northeast) lack the infrastructure to transport natural gas, for many the main options are electricity and oil. Of the two, electricity is generally more expensive, less environmentally friendly...
...less susceptible to criticism - from predictable opponents as well as less likely foes. There are plenty of conflicting reports as to whether or not faith-based community programs are more, less, or just as effective as those run by secular organizations - an uncertainty that only serves to fuel the fierce debate over entwining something as public as federal dollars with something as private as religious beliefs...