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...After a hiatus of a dozen years, during which neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union mounted missions to Mars, a spacecraft is once again on its way, opening a new era in the exploration of the earth's closest planetary neighbor. During the next decade or so, the Soviets will launch a series of increasingly sophisticated unmanned Mars probes that they hope will culminate in a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to the Red Planet by the year 2010 ... While the American space program has been crippled since the Challenger disaster in January 1986, Soviet cosmonauts have been gaining...
Standing before the Crimson is an 11-day hockey hiatus; the team next skates on Dec. 27 against No. 10 St. Cloud State in the Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee...
...suffered more than his usually happy-go-lucky onscreen persona would suggest. He was the uncredited director for half of the infamous Jackie Chan fiasco Armour of God, and it was under his watch that Chan experienced his worst accident ever, which required brain surgery and a one-year hiatus. And Tsang's personal life hasn't exactly been a romantic comedy. His first marriage, in 1972, which produced two daughters?Wing-yee, now a housewife, and Bowie, today a popular TV personality in Taiwan?ended in divorce after four years. "I liked hanging out with my friends too much...
...industrial scale on which we complain about its inconvenience. Restoring year-round Daylight Saving Time could silence that unpalatable grumbling. But the real reason to take this measure is neither to generate less prosaic conversation topics nor to smoke pot amidst the splendor of natural sunlight. Our yearly hiatus from Daylight Saving Time has consequences far—ahem—darker than these...
...took a hiatus from Harvard last year, putting university life on hold. Now he has returned, at 197 lbs., with a more mature and disciplined attitude towards both wrestling and college...