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...which will resemble an extremely bright star flying west to east--will be shortly after dusk. Knowing which days it will be visible is trickier. Since Earth takes 24 hr. to complete a rotation and the station--which orbits at a 51.6[degree] inclination--takes only a zippy 92 min. to circle the planet, it will pass over a different part of the U.S. every time it flies by. To find out when it's coming to your corner of the continent, check out spaceflight.NASA.gov It's never easy to know that billions of your tax dollars are being spent...
...settlement of Neveh Dekalim is a harrowing 10-min. drive from Kfar Darom. As darkness comes, so does the time of greatest risk, when gunmen can move about with near impunity. Inside this largest of the 15 Gaza settlements, Noam and Leora Koenigsberg's three-year-old son Binyamin knows what darkness means. "Boom, boom," he says...
...DEODORIZER INVENTOR: TANITA CORP. The Deodorant Light for Shoes has two tiny lamps that beam safe levels of ultraviolet light into shoes to eliminate isovaleric acid--the cause of the disease more commonly known as stinky feet. It was developed for a Japanese market obsessed with cleanliness; each 3-min. treatment eliminates 86.7% of acids. That should...
...Cruiser? Here's a hint: the Dallas retailer Neiman Marcus has just offered a special edition of 200 T-Birds for sale in its 2000 Christmas catalog. When the phone lines opened in September, all 200 cars, priced at $41,999 each, were sold in 2 hrs. 15 min. That's more like a love bite than a mere peck on the cheek...
...think the world of cheerleading is as simple as sis-boom-bah, think again. At big-time competitions held by groups such as the Universal Cheerleading Association and the National Cheerleading Association, teams are judged on how cleanly and creatively they perform original 2-to-3-min. routines. Most include tumbling, stunts and dance; at NCA events, the all-stars don't even have to chant a cheer. "It's not really what they're about anyway," says American Cheerleader magazine senior editor Alyssa Roenigk. "So in many cases, they'd prefer to compete just to music...