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...sudden, uncontrollable bouts of sobbing. They're overwrought about where the polar bears will live if they lose their habitat. They fret about the Earth running out of fossil fuels and about the slow disappearance of the oceans' coral reefs. Sometimes, the worry is closer to home, about the loss of songbirds in the backyard or the fate of the squirrels after a neighborhood park was bulldozed for condominiums...
...still being hunted, wants the Australians to leave East Timor. "Australia cannot be an impartial force in this country," he says. If ISF troops attack his men, he warns, they will fight back. "Then it will be worse," he says. "Day after day [the Australians] will have loss of life...
...exhaustive deliberations? Because the stakes are high - the potential loss of life above all - for the future of the space shuttle program, which impacts, among other things, the maintenance of the Hubble Telescope and the International Space Station, which can't survive without a space truck capable of delivering heavy construction loads. The investigation's thoroughness is also a direct result of an overhaul of NASA policies following the 2003 Columbia disaster. Asked whether the agency may have gone too far this time in information overload, Shannon, who never broke a sweat making his announcement in a press briefing, said...
These days the fall begins in mid-August: the return of routine and new backpacks and the sudden loss of leisure that comes with the burst of the New Year. For that is August's real purpose on the calendar, to be its dying days, before autumn comes and the air is fit to breathe again and everything starts over--football season, TV season, fourth grade and the chance to break all the resolutions made on vacation for the year ahead...
...personal fortune. She had a sparkling sense of humor. She remembered names. And her intellect was lively: even at 100, she continued to write poems and articles. She loved to dance. She loved to flirt and thought that flirting as an institution necessary to romance had disappeared--a loss that she mourned. Love, she believed, brought out the best in people. It certainly did in Mrs. Astor, who adored New York and her countless friends...