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...Losers PIN CHAKKAPHAK U.K. court approves Thai financier's extradition. That whole Asian financial crisis? His fault BANGARU LAXMAN Still time for med school. Prez of India's ruling party caught on camera accepting bribes MIR Russian space station crashing below the 2000 level?no, wait, that's the NASDAQ Verbatim...
...ever flew aboard the Mir space station, you'd know how important it was to urinate on the barbed wire surrounding the launchpad before you went up. If you were especially thorough, you might want to douse the wheels of the bus that carried...
Russia is not saying much about checking the laces as the wheezing old Mir prepares to end its life in a planned crash, scheduled for Thursday or Friday of this week. The 143-ton ship will re-enter the atmosphere in a flaming arc over the South Pacific, hitting the ocean as a sizzling pile of slag somewhere between Chile and Australia. But even as this final dive approaches, Mir's biographers are working hard to catalog the station's achievements: the 16,500 experiments conducted in its labs; the 600 industrial technologies it helped create; the 104 crew members...
...Taco Bell was $10 million--a figure that seems high until one calculates the resulting cost of ingredients for each of 281 million tacos. But Taco Bell has bought insurance anyway, and at relatively low cost, since the target is 10 miles off the coast of Australia, and Mir is expected to crash more than 1,000 miles off the coast of New Zealand...
...outdone, The Crimson would like to meet Taco Bell's offer. We are prepared to offer a free copy of The Crimson to every man, woman and child in the United States in the event that Mir, by some unfortunate and deplorable accident, should happen to smash to ruins the building of the Harvard Lampoon...