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...take so long? Who's involved? "We grew up, certainly I grew up, thinking that space was our future," says Jim Van Laak, the philosophical manager for space-station operations at NASA. "You look back at movies like '2001: A Space Odyssey?' and we thought we'd have a colony on the moon by this point. The practical matter is that it's a lot harder than we thought, and we have to take one step at a time. The technology, the understanding of how to keep people alive in space for long periods of time comes slowly...
...come an American is in command? How did he get the job? If anyone has a right to talk of the station as a long journey, it's space station commander Jim Shepherd, or "Shep" as he is known to all, including wife Beth and Russian ground controllers (who pronounce it "Ship"). Shepherd, 51, joined the U.S. Navy to become a pilot, then the only route to commanding a space mission. Poor eyesight ended that dream, so he became a frogman and used that as a stepping-stone to the Astronaut Corps, but as a mission specialist, not a commander...
Neither contest was ever in doubt, nor does either game bear any real significance in the standings. However, Harvard Coach Jim Floerchinger noted that the team needed a warmup beyond the team's rigorous practices in order to properly prepare for the weekend's challenges...
Sure, there were token flashes of good times from 1985 to 1995. Don Mattingly was a perennial all-star, Ricky Henderson was a stolen base glutton, and Jim Abbott redefined athleticism...
...Live's Presidential Bash 2000. Both played to their stereotypes not only on camera but off camera as well. After just one insipid sentence--"Hi, I'm Al Gore, Democratic candidate for President"--Gore began micromanaging. "I thought that line was out," he said. Meanwhile, Bush asked SNL writer Jim Downey to include even more malapropisms. After stumbling over the nonword "ambilavent," Bush turned to the crowd and said, "I don't know why I'm having trouble. That's usually how I say it anyway." And Downey had to talk Bush out of adding a previously deleted joke--turning...