Word: marvels
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...shock to the members of her traditional family, and they agreed only on the grounds that her brother Sanjay would come with her to settle her in. She became an astronaut in 1994 and flew her first shuttle mission in 1997. She couldn't get over the marvel of it. "You just hang; you can't feel your hands," she told Colorado Engineer magazine. "It's not like on earth, where you can feel the ground and your elbows feel the chair. The only thing I feel is my thoughts." She used to set herself a time during meal breaks...
...What I marvel at, what gives me such hope, is that this man could overcome depression, self-doubt and the constraints of biography and not only act decisively but retain his humanity. Like a figure from the Old Testament, he wandered the earth, making mistakes, loving his family but causing them pain, despairing over the course of events, trying to divine God's will. He did not know how things would turn out, but he did his best...
...physical White House. Scouten was on duty when Ike had his slight stroke that year and aides gently persuaded him not to go to the state dinner that night. Scouten helped execute Jackie Kennedy's dinner on Mount Vernon's lawn for Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, a logistics marvel that involved preparing the food in field kitchens and transporting guests down the Potomac. "Thank goodness the weather was good," he recalled, an all-time understatement. Scouten was supervising the redecoration of the Oval Office when one of J.F.K.'s staff came in weeping and shouting, "The President's been...
...John Sias often mingles with the troops at breakfast rather than repairing to the 40th-floor executive dining room. "It's not good to use all the executive perks and ask others to cut back," says Sias, 59, a former paratrooper known for his practical jokes and the Captain Marvel T shirts he sometimes wears under his suit and tie. "It's important for executives to set an example...
...Washington, D.C., where King Tutankhamen began his American reign last December, the wait to get in to see his treasures averaged five hours. In Chicago, 2,000 lined up opening day to marvel at the glittering objects found in the tomb of the boy pharaoh who lived in the 14th century B.C. Now it is New Orleans' turn, and ... some of that old Mardi Gras madness has rubbed off on the Egyptian god-king. For starters, Lelong Drive, leading up to the city's Museum of Art, was painted a kind of Nile blue. The Fairmont Hotel opened a tent...