Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mundane existence lure the soul? Is it fear of failure or a desire for stability in the lack of motion? Can we ask for anything other than insecurity from a life-time of ladder-climbing? Is such future uncertainty, such unease of stomach and bother of mind, such agitated fuel for the self inherently bad? Or is the fact that it propels us to greater heights sufficient reasoning for the bother...
...movable - oil canisters, food, anything - to halt the descent," Branson said. "I thought, "What am I doing up here?" The acknowledged hero of the safe landing was engineer Alex Ritchie, himself a last-minute replacement for a sick crewman, who climbed outside the capsule to jettison a one-ton fuel tank, slowing the rapid fall. "We owe a debt of gratitude to Alex. He saved our lives," said Branson. At the launch Tuesday a North African military air base near Marrakech, Morocco, Branson had expressed higher hopes. "We are about to embark on a great adventure," Branson said shortly before...
...same time, the new emphasis on Jesus' less knowable side caused his role as a kind of ombudsman for humanity to shift somewhat onto his mother's reassuringly human shoulders. Mary as intercessor percolated for several centuries in the Eastern church before exploding in the medieval West. There, fueled as much by folk devotion as by church leaders, her cult eventually can be said to have run wild ("Mary so loved the world...that she gave her only begotten son," ran one prayer), providing fuel for the Protestant reformers' charges of "Mariolatry...
...NASA was able to confirm the two pieces of metal, one 6 by 15 feet, the other 1 by 5 feet, were from the doomed shuttle. Challenger flew for 73 seconds after lifting off the pad at the Cape when a leak in one of the shuttle's solid fuel rockets caused the explosion. A sobering reminder, at a time when the U.S. space program is looking ahead to the construction of the international space station, of just how dangerous space exploration...
...certain where the water came from, though a collision with an icy comet is likely. Just as important as the origin of the ice is its future. "Settlers could break the water into oxygen and hydrogen and turn them into rocket fuel and air," suggests Dunston. And as for the possibility of ice-dwelling organisms? Not likely. Water may help sustain life, but at nearly 400[degrees] below, it couldn't get started in the first place...