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Just as the drummer is about to launch into yet another solo, the tall, gaunt, goateed Ellison sweeps down a stairwell to the side door of the auditorium, trailing a retinue of blond female publicists. He pauses a moment so that he is backlighted in the doorway, bending toward one of his attendants and asking if his wide forehead looks too shiny in this light. He acts like a rock star about to step on stage...
Despite such obvious design glitches, the launch of Zvezda was greeted with jubilation--and for good reason. The U.S.-led, 16-nation ISS had been on hold for two years while the cash-poor Russians tried to scare up the funds to get the module built and launched. It was only with an infusion of dollars from Washington--as well as from so capitalist a benefactor as Pizza Hut, which bought advertising space on the side of the Zvezda booster--that the job was completed. Zvezda now joins the Zarya and Unity modules, which have been in orbit since...
...know? I'm losing my memory. I'd like to try that new Alzheimer's vaccine. Do I like tuna tartar? I forget. Do I like you? I forget. Of course I do. Let's go tubing, sailing, parasailing, assailing. Let's play softball, croquet, tackle football. That launch--how much? That egret--how much? I used to look forward to summer...
...other oligarchs - politically powerful billionaires who, like Berezovsky, accumulated their fortunes by questionable means in the Wild West early years of Russian capitalism - and his efforts to centralize power in the Kremlin have gotten Berezovsky so worried that he's announced his intention to quit parliament and launch a rival political party...
...Pentagon is 1 for 3 in its bid to build a missile shield. Things began unraveling even before the $20 million exoatmospheric kill vehicle left Kwajalein Atoll on Friday night, when the balloon decoy accompanying a mock warhead fired from California failed to inflate. Then, shortly after the launch of the interceptor, its final rocket stage refused to separate from the kill vehicle, dooming the mission. AIR FORCE LIEUT. GENERAL RON KADISH, who runs the military's missile-defense programs, monitored the test from inside a secure Pentagon conference room. His nervous energy soured into bitter disappointment as he watched...