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...abducted lawn fixture from North Carolina with a conical red hat. In the real world, despite competition from Expedia and Orbitz , the Sabre subsidiary has also proved unforgettable, posting $4.9 billion in travel bookings for 2004 and $500 million in revenue. Next on her itinerary: Travelocity Europe and two joint ventures, Singapore's Zuji and Japan's Tabini...
University President Lawrence H. Summers and Law School Dean Elena Kagan, in a joint statement issued early yesterday afternoon, acknowledged that Tribe committed “a significant lapse in proper academic practice” in the composition of the 1985 book. But Summers and Kagan said they are “firmly convinced that the error was the product of inadvertence rather than intentionality...
...celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz space linkup were such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, former Moonwalker and U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt, Astronaut Sally Ride, Hawaii Senator Spark Matsunaga and NASA Chief James Beggs. They proposed an agenda for the future as well: a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars, which could be launched as early as 2010. In the highlight of the meeting, sponsored by the Planetary Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov, the Soviet linkup veterans, rejoined their Apollo counterparts Tom Stafford, Deke Slayton...
There are more practical reasons for a joint mission. Neither nation alone can easily afford the estimated $40 billion price tag. And even that figure is conservative; it assumes the existence of the $10 billion orbiting U.S. space station, now scheduled for completion around 1992, which will be used as a platform to assemble and launch the Mars-bound rocket...
Lisa Brooks, of Abenaki descent—who currently is a lecturer in History and Literature—received a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in the History and Literature Program and Folklore and Mythology Program...